Surah Ad-Dukhan

Quran 44:38

Read Quran 44:38 from Surah Ad-Dukhan (The Smoke) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 44:38

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ٣٨

And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play.

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
38 of 59
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
44:38

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 44:38

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

يخبر تعالى عن كمال قدرته وتمام حكمته وأنه ما خلق السماوات والأرض لعبا ولا لهوا أو سدى من غير فائدة