Surah Ad-Dukhan
Quran 44:37
Read Quran 44:37 from Surah Ad-Dukhan (The Smoke) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 44:37
أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ٣٧
Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 44. Ad-Dukhan (The Smoke)
- Ayah
- 37 of 59
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 44:37
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 44:37
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
قال تعالى: { أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ } أي: هؤلاء المخاطبون { أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ } فإنهم ليسوا خيرا منهم وقد اشتركوا في الإجرام فليتوقعوا من الهلاك ما أصاب إخوانهم المجرمين.