Surah Saba
Quran 34:17
Read Quran 34:17 from Surah Saba (Sheba) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 34:17
ذَٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَاهُمْ بِمَا كَفَرُوا ۖ وَهَلْ نُجَازِي إِلَّا الْكَفُورَ١٧
This We awarded them because of their ingratitude. Punish We ever any save the ingrates?
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 34. Saba (Sheba)
- Ayah
- 17 of 54
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 34:17
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 34:17
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic. This commentary explains ayahs 34:17-18 together.
فكما بدلوا الشكر الحسن, بالكفر القبيح, بدلوا تلك النعمة بما ذكر, ولهذا قال: { ذَلِكَ جَزَيْنَاهُمْ بِمَا كَفَرُوا وَهَلْ نُجَازِي إِلَّا الْكَفُورَ } أي: وهل نجازي جزاء العقوبة - بدليل السياق - إلا من كفر باللّه وبطر النعمة؟