Qur'an 67:10 Al-Mulk
وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِىٓ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلسَّعِيرِ
And they will say, "If only we had been listening or reasoning, we would not be among the companions of the Blaze."
Saheeh International
What it says
Two faculties are named and both are given up as unused: taking a thing on report and working it out for oneself. Sama' here is not the ear functioning but attention paid to what was said. The sentence is a conditional in the past, the form Arabic uses for a condition that can no longer be met.
Word by word
وَقَالُوا۟ wa-qālū and they say · لَوْ law if only · كُنَّا kunnā we had · نَسْمَعُ nasmaʿu listened · أَوْ aw or · نَعْقِلُ naʿqilu reasoned · مَا mā not · كُنَّا kunnā we would be · فِىٓ fī among · أَصْحَٰبِ aṣḥābi the companions of · ٱلسَّعِيرِ as-saʿīr the blaze
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