Surah Al-Waqi'ah

Quran 56:70

Read Quran 56:70 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 56:70

لَوْ نَشَاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ٧٠

If We willed We verily could make it bitter. Why then, give ye not thanks?

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
70 of 96
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
56:70

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 56:70

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

ولو شاء لجعله ملحا أجاجا مكروها للنفوس. لا ينتفع به { فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ } الله تعالى على ما أنعم به عليكم.