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They indeed are losers who deny the encounter with Allahu ta’ālā, through resurrection, until (hattā is purposive to expose the [extent of their] mendacity) when the Hour, the Resurrection, comes upon them suddenly, they shall say, 'Alas for us (yā hasratanā, 'O grief of ours', expresses extreme suffering, the [vocative] call to which is figurative, meaning 'Now is the time for you [O grief], so come forth!') that we neglected it!', the worldly life. On their backs they shall be bearing their burdens, so that these come to them at the Resurrection in the vilest of forms and with the most putrid of smells, and they ride them. Ah, evil is that, burden of theirs, which they bear!