Surah As-Saffat
Quran 37:97
Read Quran 37:97 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 37:97
قَالُوا ابْنُوا لَهُ بُنْيَانًا فَأَلْقُوهُ فِي الْجَحِيمِ٩٧
They said: Build for him a building and fling him in the red-hotfire.
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
- 97 of 182
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 37:97
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 37:97
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
} قَالُوا ابْنُوا لَهُ بُنْيَانًا } أي: عاليا مرتفعا، وأوقدوا فيها النار { فَأَلْقُوهُ فِي الْجَحِيمِ } جزاء على ما فعل، من تكسير آلهتهم.