Text of verse 37:49
كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَّكْنُونٌ ٤٩
Transliteration
ka-annahunna bayḍun maknūnun
Translation
As if they were [delicate] eggs, well-protected.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 49
سورة الصافات، الآية ٤٩
Verse 49 of Surah As-Saffat (37:49), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 447 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 49
Al-Mukhtasar
In their white complexation blended with a tinge of redness, it will be as if they were ostrich eggs covered by feathers from the wind and dust; protected and untouched by any hand.
Other translations of verse 49
as if they were well-protected eggs11.
Notes
[11] Or pristine pearls.
(Delicate and pure) as if they were (hidden) eggs (well) preserved.
(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).
As if they were (delicate) eggs closely guarded.
As if they were eggs carefully protected.
As if they were white nestled (jewels).