Verse. 3837

٣٧ - ٱلصَّافَّات

37 - As-Saffat

كَاَنَّہُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَّكْنُوْنٌ۝۴۹
Kaannahunna baydun maknoonun

English

Ahmed Ali

Like sheltered eggs in a nest.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (as they were hidden eggs) in their purity, in both heat and cold.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : as if they were, in terms of [the starkness of their white] colour, hidden eggs, of ostriches, sheltered by their feathers from dust, the colour being that whiteness with a hint of pallor, which is the most beautiful of female complexions.