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Surah 36. Yasin, Ayah 26

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قِيلَ ٱدْخُلِ ٱلْجَنَّةَ ۖ قَالَ يَـٰلَيْتَ قَوْمِى يَعْلَمُونَ
Qeela odkhuli aljannata q a la y a layta qawmee yaAAlamoon a
[And] he was told,15 "[Thou shalt] enter paradise!"-[whereupon] he exclaimed: "Would that my people knew
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., by the apostles or, more probably (in view of the allegorical character of this story), by his own insight. The intervention of the man who "came running from the farthest end of the city" is evidently a parable of the truly believing minority in every religion, and of their desperate, mostly unavailing endeavours to convince their erring fellow-men that God-consciousness alone can save human life from futility.

Consequently they killed that man and it was said to him: "Enter paradise." He exclaimed: "Would that my people knew that what I know!
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
'But they killed him, then' he was told 'by the angels', 'Enter Paradise!' He said, 'If only my people knew
  - Mustafa Khattab
It was said (unto him): Enter Paradise. He said: Would that my people knew
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
It was said: "Enter thou the Garden." He said "Ah me! would that my People knew (what I know)! 3971
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

This godly and righteous man entered into the Garden. Perhaps it is implied that he suffered martyrdom. But even then his thoughts were always with his People. He regretted their obstinacy and want of understanding, and wished even then that they might repent and obtain salvation, but they were obdurate and suffered for their sins as we learn from verses 28-29 below.

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