Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:167
Read Quran 37:167 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 37:167
وَإِنْ كَانُوا لَيَقُولُونَ١٦٧
And indeed they used to say:
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
- 167 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:167
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:167
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic. This commentary explains ayahs 37:167-169 together.
يخبر تعالى أن هؤلاء المشركين، يظهرون التمني، ويقولون: لو جاءنا من الذكر والكتب، ما جاء الأولين، لأخلصنا للّه العبادة، بل لكنا المخلصين على الحقيقة.