Surah As-Saffat 37:63 — translation and meaning

الصافات · Verse 63 / 182 · Page 448

إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهَا فِتْنَةً لِّلظَّالِمِينَ

Word by Word

إِنَّا
inna
Indeed We
جَعَلْنَاهَا
ja'alnaha
[We] have made it
فِتْنَةً
fit'natan
a trial
لِّلظَّالِمِينَ
lilzzalimina
for the wrongdoers

Transliteration

Innaa ja'alnaahaa fitnatal lizzaalimeen

Translation

Indeed, We have made it a torment for the wrongdoers.

Verse interpretation (Tafsir)

I have made this tree a trial, with which those who do wrong through disbelief and sins are tested, when they say: “Indeed, fire consumes trees, so it is impossible that it grows in the hellfire.”

Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.

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