Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:49
Read Quran 37:49 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 37:49
كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَكْنُونٌ٤٩
(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).
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
- 49 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:49
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:49
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ كَأَنَّهُنَّ } أي: الحور { بَيْضٌ مَكْنُونٌ } أي: مستور، وذلك من حسنهن وصفائهن وكون ألوانهن أحسن الألوان وأبهاها، ليس فيه كدر ولا شين.