Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:85
Read Quran 37:85 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 37:85
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ٨٥
When he said unto his father and his folk: What is it that ye worship?
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
- 85 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:85
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:85
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ } هذا استفهام بمعنى الإنكار، وإلزام لهم بالحجة.