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Salaam All,
Can someone explain this verse?

40:11 ‏قَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَآ أَمَتَّنَا ٱثْنَتَيْنِ وَأَحْيَيْتَنَا ٱثْنَتَيْنِ فَٱعْتَرَفْنَا بِذُنُوبِنَا فَهَلْ إِلَىٰ خُرُوجٍۢ مِّن سَبِيلٍۢ ‎


40:11 They will say, "Our Lord, twice You have made us die, just as twice You have made us live. But now we confess that we did trail behind in making progress. Is there any way out of this (second death)?"

No answers even on a postcard! Here is my 2 cents worth:

40:11 They will say, "Our Lord, twice You have made us die, just as twice You have made us live. But now we confess that we did trail behind in making progress. Is there any way out of this (second death)?” [Two lives and deaths, see 2:28]

Born- one life.
Dead and raised up, and/or following Revelation- second life.
Born and deny Revelation,- living dead, one death.
Die in this world- second death.
Or before birth you were dead, life and then death again, resurrected to life; two deaths, two life's.

40:11. They would say, “O Our Rabb, twice You have you caused us to die and twice You brought us to life. (Before we were born into this world we were dead and You gave us life; then we died and again You have given us life ~ 2:28; 37:58; 44:56.) However life in Jahannum is worse than death (14:17; 20:74; 35:36; 87:13). We now confess our guilts. As such, is there any way out of this suffering so that we can also enjoy the pleasantness of real life?”

Some ‘scholars’ say this means we were alive in heaven, died and then came to earth, but this is biblical nonsense, not Quranic.