Surah Al-Isra
Quran 17:95
Read Quran 17:95 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 17:95
قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَلَائِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَلَكًا رَسُولًا٩٥
Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger.
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
- 95 of 111
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 17:95
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 17:95
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
فلو { كَانَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَلَائِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ } يثبتون على رؤية الملائكة والتلقي عنهم؛ { لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَلَكًا رَسُولًا } ليمكنهم التلقي عنه.