Surah Al-Balad
Quran 90:5
Read Quran 90:5 from Surah Al-Balad (The City) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 90:5
أَيَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَنْ يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ٥
Thinketh he that none hath power over him?
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
- 5 of 20
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 90:5
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 90:5
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ أَيَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَنْ يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ } ويطغى ويفتخر بما أنفق من الأموال على شهوات نفسه.