Verse. 5655

٧٧ - ٱلْمُرْسَلَات

77 - Al-Mursalat

كَاَنَّہٗ جِمٰلَتٌ صُفْرٌ۝۳۳ۭ
Kaannahu jimalatun sufrun

English

Ahmed Ali

So like golden camels."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : ((or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue) black camels.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : as if they were [dark] yellow camels (jimālātun is the plural of jimalatun, the plural of jamalun; a variant reading has jimālatun), in terms of their shape and colour. in hadīth [it is stated], ‘the sparks of humans [thrown into the air by the fire] are black as pitch (qīr)’; the arabs call dark camels sufr, ‘yellow’, because a touch of yellow is mixed with their blackish colour, and therefore it is said that ‘yellow’ in this verse [actually] means ‘black’, on account of what has been mentioned; but some say no [to this interpretation]; (sharar is the plural of sharāra; qīr is qār, ‘pitch’).