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21. Surah • 33. Verse
Word Analysis
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
And He
ٱلَّذِى
alladhī
(is) the One Who
فِى
fī
in
Rashad Khalifa
The Final Testament
And He is the One who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in its own orbit.
The Monotheist Group
The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
And He is the One who has created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.
Edip-Layth
Quran: A Reformist Translation
He is the One who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.
Taqi Usmani
Holy Quran Translation
He is the One who has created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in an orbit.
Abdul Haleem
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who created night and day, the sun and the moon, each floating in its orbit.
Abul A'la Maududi
Tafhim commentary
It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Each of them is floating in its orbit.[1]
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The use of the words kullun (all) and yasbahun (float) in the plural (for more than two) indicates that not only the sun and the moon but all the heavenly bodies are floating in their own separate orbits and none of them is fixed or stationary. These (verses 30-33) are capable of being interpreted in the modern scientific terms in accordance with the present day conceptions of Physics, Biology and Astronomy.
Marmaduke Pickthall
Holy Quran Translation
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Holy Quran Translation
It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the sun and the moon: all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course.
Al-Hilali & Khan
Holy Quran Translation
And He it is Who has created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each in an orbit floating.
Mustafa Khattab
The Clear Quran
And He is the One Who created the day and the night, the sun and the moon—each travelling in an orbit.
George Sale
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who hath created the night, and the day, and the sun, and the moon; all the celestial bodies move swiftly, each in its respective orb.
Hamid S. Aziz
Holy Quran Translation
And We made the heaven a guarded canopy; yet from our signs they turn aside!
Arthur John Arberry
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in a sky.
Amatul Rahman Omar
Holy Quran Translation
And it is He Who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon. They are all gliding along smoothly in (their respective) orbits.
E. Henry Palmer
Holy Quran Translation
He it is who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in a sky.
Aisha Bewley
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who created night and day and the sun and moon, each one swimming in a sphere.
Bijan Moeinian
Holy Quran Translation
He is the One Who has created the night and the day (by ordering the earth to turn around itself, ) and the sun and the moon which turn on their orbit and float (in the space. )
Mahmoud Ghali
Holy Quran Translation
And He (is) The One Who created the night and the daytime, and the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.
Ali Quli Qarai
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Holy Quran Translation
It is He who created night and day, the sun and the moon, revolving on its orbit.
Abdel Khalek Himmat
Al- Muntakhab
And He is it Who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each describing its own orbit.
Muhammad Asad
Holy Quran Translation
and [fail to see that] it is He who has created the night and the day and the sun and the moon - all of them floating through space!
Progressive Muslims
Holy Quran Translation
He is the One who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.
Shabbir Ahmed
Holy Quran Translation
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They swim along each in an orbit.
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Holy Quran Translation
And it is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon: All (the heavenly bodies) go along, each in its rounded path.
Sahih International
(Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.
Sam Gerrans
The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
And He it is that created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each in a circuit swimming.