Surah Al-Isra
Quran 17:90
Read Quran 17:90 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 17:90
وَقَالُوا لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ يَنْبُوعًا٩٠
And they say: We will not put faith in thee till thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us;
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
- 90 of 111
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 17:90
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 17:90
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
فيقولون لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الذي أتى بهذا القرآن المشتمل على كل برهان وآية: { لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّى تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ يَنْبُوعًا } أي: أنهارًا جارية.