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But if (wa-la-in, the lām is for oaths) a bounty from Allahu ta’ālā befalls you, such as a conquest or booty, he will surely cry, in regret, as if (ka'an is softened, its subject having been omitted, in other words [it should be] ka'annahu) there had never been (read lam yakun, or lam takun) any affection, any acquaintance or friendship, between you and him: this [statement] refers back to the words [in the previous verse] 'Allahu ta’ālā has been gracious to me', and comes as a parenthesis between the statement 'that he will cry' and the very words he cries, which are: 'Oh (yā, is for exclamation), would that I had been with them, so that I might have won a great triumph!', that is, [that] I might have taken a good share of the booty.