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Saba 11

Ayah 11 of 54 · Meccan

أَنِ ٱعۡمَلۡ سَٰبِغَٰتٖ وَقَدِّرۡ فِي ٱلسَّرۡدِۖ وَٱعۡمَلُواْ صَٰلِحًاۖ إِنِّي بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ بَصِيرٞ ١١

[Commanding him], "Make full coats of mail and calculate [precisely] the links, and work [all of you] righteousness. Indeed I, of what you do, am Seeing."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. أَنِThatani
  2. ٱعۡمَلۡmakeiʿ'mal
  3. سَٰبِغَٰتٖfull coats of mailsābighātin
  4. وَقَدِّرۡand measure preciselywaqaddir
  5. فِي[of]fī
  6. ٱلسَّرۡدِۖthe links (of armor)l-sardi
  7. وَٱعۡمَلُواْand workwa-iʿ'malū
  8. صَٰلِحًاۖrighteousnessṣāliḥan
  9. إِنِّيIndeed, I Aminnī
  10. بِمَاof whatbimā
  11. تَعۡمَلُونَyou dotaʿmalūna
  12. بَصِيرٞAll-Seerbaṣīrun

Tafsir

O David! Make an expansive armour which will protect your soldiers from the attacks of their enemies, and make the rivets in proportion to the rings so that they are not too fine such that do not lodge in them, nor too thick such that they do not fit in them either. And do good deeds; I am watching over your actions, none of your actions are hidden from Me and I shall requite you for them.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran