Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And by the night when it shrouds in darkness!

وَالَّيْلِ اِذَا سَجٰىۙ
Wallayli itha saja
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1wa-al-layliAnd the nightليل
2idhāwhen
3sajāit covers with darknessسجو
  • Aisha Bewley

    and the night when it is still,

  • Progressive Muslims

    And the night when it falls.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And the night when it is still. (There is light at the end of the tunnel and with hardship is ease, like there is Daybreak after the Night (89:1), (92:1-2), (94:6)).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And by the night when it shrouds in darkness!

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And the night when it falls.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The night when it falls.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    By the night as it falls.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And the night when dark and still,

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

    And the night when it covers with darkness,

  • Muhammad Asad

    and the night when it grows still and dark.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And by the night when it is stillest,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    and by the night when it covers the world with peace:*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And by the night when life is reduced to quietness and darkness prevails and falls into a swoon:

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Also God swears by the stillness of night.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    By the night when it darkens (and stand still).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And by the Night when it is still,-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    and the night when it falls still!

  • Taqi Usmani

    and by the night when it becomes peaceful,

  • Abdul Haleem

    and by the night when it grows still,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and the brooding night!

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And the night when it darkens!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And the night when it is still!

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And (by) the night when it (comes) with its dark stillness!

  • George Sale

    and by the night, when it groweth dark:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And by the night when it is still—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And the night when it becomes still,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    by the night when it is calm!