حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَنَا قَالَ يَالَيْتَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ بُعْدَ الْمَشْرِقَيْنِ فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِينُ
When he comes to Us, he will say, ‘I wish there had been between me and you the distance between the east and the west! What an evil companion [you are]!’
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 43:38
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 43:38] Aqa Mahdi Puya says: At the time of judgement the deceived souls of the followers of Shaytan will cry in agony: "Would that we had never come across the accursed Shaytan. Would that we were separated poles apart." The distance of two easts implies "east and west" which can never meet. The equivalent idiom in English is "poles apart."