Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:153
Read Quran 37:153 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 37:153
أَصْطَفَى الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينَ١٥٣
(And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sons.
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
- 153 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:153
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:153
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ أَصْطَفَى } أي: اختار { الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينَ}