Surah Al-Fajr

Quran 89:9

Read Quran 89:9 from Surah Al-Fajr (The Dawn) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 89:9

وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ٩

And with (the tribe of) Thamud, who clove the rocks in the valley;

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

Surah
89. Al-Fajr (The Dawn)
Ayah
9 of 30
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
89:9

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 89:9

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

{ وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ } أي: وادي القرى، نحتوا بقوتهم الصخور، فاتخذوها مساكن.