Surah An-Najm

Quran 53:24

Read Quran 53:24 from Surah An-Najm (The Star) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 53:24

أَمْ لِلْإِنْسَانِ مَا تَمَنَّىٰ٢٤

Or shall man have what he coveteth?

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
24 of 62
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
53:24

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 53:24

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

ولهذا أنكر تعالى على من زعم أنه يحصل له ما تمنى وهو كاذب في ذلك، فقال: { أَمْ لِلْإِنْسَانِ مَا تَمَنَّى}