They said ‘O yā is for calling attention to something woe to us! this is our destruction! We have indeed been doing wrong’ through our disbelief.
- 21:1414
قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ
"Woe, alas," they said, "we were really sinful."
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 129