English translation of the verse 3 surah - It may be that you (O Muhammad SAW) are going to kill

Surat Ash-Shu‘ara’ Verse No. 3: Reading and listening

Translation of the verse 3 from Surah Ash-Shu‘ara’ : Number of verses 227 - - page 367 - Part 19.

﴾لَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٞ نَّفۡسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُواْ مُؤۡمِنِينَ ﴿
[ الشعراء: 3]

It may be that you (O Muhammad SAW) are going to kill yourself with grief, that they do not become believers [in your Risalah (Messengership) and in your Message of Islamic Monotheism].

English - Sahih International

Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.

Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(26:3) O Muhammad, you will perhaps consume yourself with grief because these people do not believe. *2

Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

*2) The words bakhi'un-nafsaka literally mean: "You would kill yourself." The verse in fact describes the extreme anguish, anxiety and grief of the Holy Prophet over the Makkan disbelievers' ways of deviation, moral degradation, and obduracy and opposition to his message of reform. Sometimes it seemed as if his grief and mental suffering for their sake would cause his death. This state of the Holy Prophet has been referred to at other places in the Qur'an as well, for instance in AI-Kahf: 6, thus: "Well, O Muhammad, it may be that you will consume your life for their sake out of sorrow if they do not believe in this message. And in Al-Fatir: 8, thus:" ....Iet not your life be consumed in grief for their sake."
 

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Source : Ash-Shu‘ara’ Verse 3: Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.