And those who yearned for his place only the day before began to say: Ah! (know) that Allah amplifies and straitens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants; had not Allah been gracious to us, He would most surely have abased us; ah! (know) that the ungrateful are never successful.
و همان كسانى كه ديروز آرزو داشتند به جاى او باشند، صبح مى‌گفتند: «واى، مثل اينكه خدا روزى را براى هر كس از بندگانش كه بخواهد گشاده يا تنگ مى‌گرداند، و اگر خدا بر ما منّت ننهاده بود، ما را [هم‌] به زمين فرو برده بود؛ واى، گويى كه كافران رستگار نمى‌گردند.»