Surah Al-Waqi'ah

Quran 56:5

Read Quran 56:5 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 56:5

وَبُسَّتِ الْجِبَالُ بَسًّا٥

And the hills are ground to powder

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
5 of 96
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
56:5

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 56:5

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

{ وَبُسَّتِ الْجِبَالُ بَسًّا } أي: فتتت.