Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:16
Read Quran 37:16 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 37:16
أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ١٦
When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised (again)?
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
- 16 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:16
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:16
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
ومن العجب أيضا، قياسهم قدرة رب الأرض والسماوات، على قدرة الآدمي الناقص من جميع الوجوه، فقالوا استبعادا وإنكارا: { أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَئِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ{