Surah An-Nahl
Quran 16:49
Read Quran 16:49 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 16:49
And unto Allah maketh prostration whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth of living creatures, and the angels (also) and they are not proud.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 16. An-Nahl (The Bee)
- Ayah
- 49 of 128
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 16:49
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:49
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ وَلِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مِنْ دَابَّةٍ ْ} من الحيوانات الناطقة والصامتة، { وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ ْ} الكرام خصهم بعد العموم لفضلهم وشرفهم وكثرة عبادتهم ولهذا قال: { وَهُمْ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ ْ} أي: عن عبادته على كثرتهم وعظمة أخلاقهم وقوتهم كما قال تعالى: { لَنْ يَسْتَنْكِفَ الْمَسِيحُ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَبْدًا لِلَّهِ وَلَا الْمَلَائِكَةُ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ ْ}