Surah Ar-Rahman
Quran 55:5
Read Quran 55:5 from Surah Ar-Rahman (The Beneficent) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 55:5
الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ٥
The sun and the moon are made punctual.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 55. Ar-Rahman (The Beneficent)
- Ayah
- 5 of 78
- Revelation
- Medinan (revealed in Medina)
- Reference
- 55:5
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 55:5
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ } أي: خلق الله الشمس والقمر، وسخرهما يجريان بحساب مقنن، وتقدير مقدر، رحمة بالعباد، وعناية بهم، وليقوم بذلك من مصالحهم ما يقوم، وليعرف العباد عدد السنين والحساب.