Surah An-Najm
Quran 53:7
Read Quran 53:7 from Surah An-Najm (The Star) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 53:7
وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَىٰ٧
When he was on the uppermost horizon.
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
- 7 of 62
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 53:7
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 53:7
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَى } أي: أفق السماء الذي هو أعلى من الأرض، فهو من الأرواح العلوية، التي لا تنالها الشياطين ولا يتمكنون من الوصول إليها.