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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 36:40 | |
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| 36:40 لاالشمس ينبغي لها ان تدرك القمر ولاالليل سابق النهار وكل في فلك يسبحون | |
| Transliteration | La alshshamsu yanbaghee laha an tudrika alqamara wala allaylu sabiqu alnnahari wakullun fee falakin yasbahoona |
| Literal | The sun should not (be) to it that it catches up/overtakes/reaches the moon, and nor the night (is) surpassing/preceding the daytime, and each (is) in (an) orbit/circuit floating. |
| Yusuf Ali | It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law). |
| Pickthal | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit. |
| Arberry | It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky. |
| Shakir | Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere. |
| Sarwar | how the sun is not supposed to catch-up with the moon, nor is the night to precede the day. All of them are to float in a certain orbit; |
| Khalifa | The sun is never to catch up with the moon - the night and the day never deviate - each of them is floating in its own orbit. |
| Hilali/Khan | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit. |
| H/K/Saheeh | It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming. |
| Malik | Neither it is possible for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day: each floats along in its own orbit.[40] |
| QXP | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day. All of them swim along in their orbits. (The sun cannot cause the moon to gravitate towards itself and the night and the day cannot lengthen or shorten other than the appointed measure (21:33), (22:61), (25:62), (31:29), (41:37), (57:6)). |
| Maulana Ali | Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit. |
| Free Minds | The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit. |
| Qaribullah | The sun shall not outstrip the moon, nor shall the night outstrip the day. Each is floating in an orbit. |
| George Sale | It is not expedient that the sun should overtake the moon in her course; neither doth the night outstrip the day: But each of these luminaries moveth in a peculiar orbit. |
| JM Rodwell | To the Sun it is not given to overtake the Moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth journey on. |
| Asad | [and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, [Lit., "nor does the night outrun [or "outstrip"] the day".] since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws]. MAN'S INGENUITY AS DIRECT MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S CREATIVENESS |
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