Surah Al-Waqi'ah
Quran 56:16
Read Quran 56:16 from Surah Al-Waqi'ah (The Inevitable) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 56:16
مُتَّكِئِينَ عَلَيْهَا مُتَقَابِلِينَ١٦
Reclining therein face to face.
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
- 16 of 96
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 56:16
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 56:16
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ مُتَّكِئِينَ عَلَيْهَا } أي: على تلك السرر، جلوس تمكن وطمأنينة وراحة واستقرار. { مُتَقَابِلِينَ } وجه كل منهم إلى وجه صاحبه، من صفاء قلوبهم، وحسن أدبهم، وتقابل قلوبهم.