Surah Al-Isra
Quran 17:103
Read Quran 17:103 from Surah Al-Isra (The Night Journey) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 17:103
فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَسْتَفِزَّهُمْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ فَأَغْرَقْنَاهُ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ جَمِيعًا١٠٣
And he wished to scare them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him, all together.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 17. Al-Isra (The Night Journey)
- Ayah
- 103 of 111
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 17:103
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 17:103
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ فَأَرَادَ } فرعون { أَنْ يَسْتَفِزَّهُمْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ } أن: يجليهم ويخرجهم منها. { فَأَغْرَقْنَاهُ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ جَمِيعًا } وأورثنا بني إسرائيل أرضهم وديارهم.