Surah Al-'Ankabut
Quran 29:55
Read Quran 29:55 from Surah Al-'Ankabut (The Spider) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 29:55
يَوْمَ يَغْشَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِنْ تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِمْ وَيَقُولُ ذُوقُوا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ٥٥
On the day when the doom will overwhelm them from above them and from underneath their feet, and He will say: Taste what ye used to do!
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 29. Al-'Ankabut (The Spider)
- Ayah
- 55 of 69
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 29:55
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 29:55
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ يَوْمَ يَغْشَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِنْ تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِمْ وَيَقُولُ ذُوقُوا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ } فإن أعمالكم انقلبت عليكم عذابا، وشملكم العذاب كما شملكم الكفر والذنوب.