Surah As-Saffat

Quran 37:142

Read Quran 37:142 from Surah As-Saffat (Those Drawn Up in Ranks) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 37:142

فَالْتَقَمَهُ الْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ١٤٢

And the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy;

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
142 of 182
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
37:142

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:142

Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.

فألقي في البحر { فَالْتَقَمَهُ الْحُوتُ وَهُوَ } وقت التقامه { مُلِيمٌ } أي: فاعل ما يلام عليه، وهو مغاضبته لربه.