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fa-tawallā ʿanhum wa-qāla yā-qawmi la-qad ʾablaghtukum risālāti rabbī wa-naṣaḥtu lakum fa-kayfa ʾāsā ʿalā qawmin kāfirīna
So he abandoned them [to their fate] and said, ‘O my people! Certainly, I communicated to you the messages of my Lord, and I was your well-wisher. So how should I grieve for a faithless lot?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah al-‘Araf – Verse 93
93 . “So he turned away from them, and said: ‘O’ my people! I have delivered to you the messages of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; so how shall I then grieve for a disbelieving people?’”
Again, for a more intensive emphasis, it says that those who belied Shu‘ayb were the losers, not those who believed in him. Thus, such people are addressed in the holy verse as follows:
When Shu‘ayb saw them in the threshold of chastisement and destruction, he hopelessly turned away from them, and told them that he had conveyed the messages of Allah to them and had advised them, but refusing his words, they did not hearken to him. That is, that punishment was very hard and painful, but they were deserve to incur it as a result of the crimes they had committed.
Then Suh‘ayb, in a positive interrogation with a negative sense, said why he should grieve for a people who disbelieved and incurred the punishment of Allah for themselves. This statement means that he said he did not grieve for them. Thus Shu‘ayb consoles himself, because he had made his best and applied all the necessary efforts to guide aright those people. But, alas, they disobeyed arrogantly and that torment was their recompense.