Surah As-Saffat

Quran 37:69

Read Quran 37:69 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 37:69

إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا آبَاءَهُمْ ضَالِّينَ٦٩

They indeed found their fathers astray,

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
69 of 182
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
37:69

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:69

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

وكأنه قيل: ما الذي أوصلهم إلى هذه الدار؟ فقال: { إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا } أي: وجدوا { آبَاءَهُمْ ضَالِّينَ{