Al-Muminoon • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَهُمُ ٱلْمَوْتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ٱرْجِعُونِ ﴾
“[AS FOR THOSE who will not believe in the life to come, they go on lying to themselves] until, when death approaches any of them, he prays: “O my Sustainer! Let me return, let me return [to life],”
(Until, when death) the angels of death and his helpers (cometh unto one of them) i.e. the disbelievers of Mecca, (he saith: My Lord! Send me back) to the life of the world,