Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:30
Read Quran 37:30 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 37:30
وَمَا كَانَ لَنَا عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ سُلْطَانٍ ۖ بَلْ كُنْتُمْ قَوْمًا طَاغِينَ٣٠
We had no power over you, but ye were wayward folk.
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
- 30 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:30
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:30
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ و } الحال أنه { مَا كَانَ لنا عليكم مِنْ سُلْطَانٍ } أي: قهر لكم على اختيار الكفر { بَلْ كُنْتُمْ قَوْمًا طَاغِينَ } متجاوزين للحد