Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:29
Read Quran 37:29 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 37:29
قَالُوا بَلْ لَمْ تَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ٢٩
They answer: Nay, but ye (yourselves) were not believers.
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
- 29 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:29
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:29
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ قَالُوا } لهم { بَلْ لَمْ تَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ } أي: ما زلتم مشركين، كما نحن مشركون، فأي: شيء فضلكم علينا؟ وأي: شيء يوجب لومنا؟