Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:1
Read Quran 37:1 from Surah As-Saffat (Those Drawn Up in Ranks) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Quran verse
Qur'an 37:1
وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا١
By those who set the ranks in battle order
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 37. As-Saffat (Those Drawn Up in Ranks)
- Ayah
- 1 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:1
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:1
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
هذا قسم منه تعالى بالملائكة الكرام، في حال عبادتها وتدبيرها ما تدبره بإذن ربها، على ألوهيته تعالى وربوبيته، فقال: { وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا } أي: صفوفا في خدمة ربهم، وهم الملائكة.