Surah Al-Balad
Quran 90:20
Read Quran 90:20 from Surah Al-Balad (The City) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 90:20
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُؤْصَدَةٌ٢٠
Fire will be an awning over them.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 90. Al-Balad (The City)
- Ayah
- 20 of 20
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 90:20
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 90:20
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
[عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُؤْصَدَةٌ } أي: مغلقة، في عمد ممددة، قد مدت من ورائها، لئلا تنفتح أبوابها، حتى يكونوا في ضيق وهم وشدة [والحمد لله].