Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:71
Read Quran 37:71 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 37:71
وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ٧١
And verily most of the men of old went astray before them,
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
- 71 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:71
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:71
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ } أي: قبل هؤلاء المخاطبين { أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ } وقليل منهم آمن واهتدى.