Surah As-Saffat

Quran 37:39

Read Quran 37:39 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 37:39

وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ٣٩

Ye are requited naught save what ye did -

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
39 of 182
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
37:39

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:39

Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.

{ وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ } في إذاقة العذاب الأليم { إِلَّا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ } فلم نظلمكم، وإنما عدلنا فيكم؟ولما كان هذا الخطاب لفظه عاما، والمراد به المشركون، استثنى تعالى المؤمنين فقال: