Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And there will circulate among them youths of their own, like hidden pearls.

وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ غِلْمَانٌ لَهُمْ كَاَنَّهُمْ لُؤْلُؤٌ۬ مَكْنُونٌ
Wayatoofu AAalayhim ghilmanunlahum kaannahum lu/luon maknoon
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1wayaṭūfuAnd will circulateطوف
2ʿalayhimamong them
3ghil'mānunboysغلم
4lahumfor them
5ka-annahumas if they (were)
6lu'lu-onpearlsلالا
7maknūnunwell-protectedكنن
  • Aisha Bewley

    Circulating among them there will be youths like hidden pearls.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And around them will be children like protected pearls.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And their children like pearls, playful, happy around them. (13:23), (52:21), (59:17)).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And there will circulate among them youths of their own, like hidden pearls.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And around them will be children like protected pearls.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Around them will be children like protected pearls.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Serving them will be servants like protected pearls.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And young attendants like pearls within their shells, will go round.

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    There will circulate among them boys for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.

  • Muhammad Asad

    And they will be waited upon by youths, of their own, as if they were pearls hidden in their shells.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden pearls.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Youths as fair as hidden pearls will be set apart to wait upon them; they will be running to and fro to serve them.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    They will be Served by their handsome attendants whose figures in conjunction with stateliness, and their beauty in conjunction with dignity are eternal, as like as precious pearls, gracefully adorned as with blazonry affording keen pleasure to the sense of sight and charms the intellectual and moral faculties.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    They will have appointed young servants who will be as lovely as well-guarded pearls.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve them as if they were preserved pearls.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And they will be waited on by their youthful servants like spotless pearls.        

  • Taqi Usmani

    And their own serving boys will rotate around them, (who will be as neat and clean) as if they were hidden pearls.

  • Abdul Haleem

    Devoted youths like hidden pearls wait on them.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And round them shall go boys of theirs, as though they were hidden pearls.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And round them shall serve youth devoted to them, handsome as well-guarded (preserved or hidden) pearls.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And (there) go round them youths of their own, as if they were nestled pearl (s);

  • George Sale

    And youths appointed to attend them, shall go round them: Beautiful as pearls hidden in their shell.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And there will go around (devoted) to them, youths (handsome) as pearls, well-guarded.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Their own young sons as pure as though they were (virgin) pearls embedded in their shells, shall go round them.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    They will be waited upon by youths, their own, as if they were guarded pearls.