Surah Al-Waqi'ah

Quran 56:1

Read Quran 56:1 from Surah Al-Waqi'ah (The Inevitable) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Quran verse

Qur'an 56:1

إِذَا وَقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُ١

When the event befalleth -

English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.

Surah
56. Al-Waqi'ah (The Inevitable)
Ayah
1 of 96
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
56:1

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 56:1

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

يخبر تعالى بحال الواقعة التي لا بد من وقوعها، وهي القيامة التي