Surah An-Najm
Quran 53:22
Read Quran 53:22 from Surah An-Najm (The Star) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 53:22
تِلْكَ إِذًا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَىٰ٢٢
That indeed were an unfair division!
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
- 22 of 62
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 53:22
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 53:22
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ تِلْكَ إِذًا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَى } أي: ظالمة جائرة، [وأي ظلم أعظم من قسمة] تقتضي تفضيل العبد المخلوق على الخالق؟ [تعالى عن قولهم علوا كبيرا].