Surah An-Najm
Quran 53:16
Read Quran 53:16 from Surah An-Najm (The Star) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 53:16
إِذْ يَغْشَى السِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَىٰ١٦
When that which shroudeth did enshroud the lote-tree,
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 53. An-Najm (The Star)
- Ayah
- 16 of 62
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 53:16
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 53:16
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ إِذْ يَغْشَى السِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَى } أي: يغشاها من أمر الله، شيء عظيم لا يعلم وصفه إلا الله عز وجل.