Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

“Or thou have a garden of date-palms and grapevines, and thou cause rivers to gush forth in the midst thereof abundantly,

اَوْ تَكُونَ لَكَ جَنَّةٌ مِنْ نَخ۪يلٍ وَعِنَبٍ فَتُفَجِّرَ الْاَنْهَارَ خِلَالَهَا تَفْج۪يراًۙ
Aw takoona laka jannatun min nakheelinwaAAinabin fatufajjira al-anhara khilalahatafjeera
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1awOr
2takūnayou haveكون
3lakafor you
4jannatuna gardenجنن
5minof
6nakhīlindate-palmsنخل
7waʿinabinand grapesعنب
8fatufajjiraand cause to gush forthفجر
9l-anhārathe riversنهر
10khilālahāwithin themخلل
11tafjīranabundantlyفجر
  • Aisha Bewley

    or have a garden of dates and grapes which you make rivers come pouring through;

  • Progressive Muslims

    "Or that you have a garden of palm trees and grapes, and you cause gushing rivers to burst through it. "

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    "Or you have a garden of date palms and grapes vines and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst. "

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    “Or thou have a garden of date-palms and grapevines, and thou cause rivers to gush forth in the midst thereof abundantly,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    "Or that you have an estate of palm trees and grapes, and you cause gushing rivers to burst through it."

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    "Or that you have a garden of palm trees and grapes, and you cause gushing rivers to burst through it."

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    "Or unless you own a garden of date palms and grapes, with rivers running through it.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Or, until you acquire an orchard of date-palm trees and grapes, and produce rivers flowing through it;

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

    Or you have a garden of palm tress and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force

  • Muhammad Asad

    or thou have a garden of date-palms and vines and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst in a sudden rush,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Or thou have a garden of date-palms and grapes, and cause rivers to gush forth therein abundantly;

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    or that there be a garden of palms and vines for you and then you cause rivers to abundantly flow forth through them;

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    "Or until you have an orchard enclosing palm-trees and vines and you cause the earth to cleave in its midst forming channels for water to flow in copious streams like rolling rivers with murmuring flows that flow forever?"

  • Bijan Moeinian

    You own a garden of date palms and grapes, with rivers running through it; or ….

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    "Or you have a garden of date-palms and grapes, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst abundantly;

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "Or (until) thou have a garden of date trees and vines, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst, carrying abundant water;

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    or until you have a garden of palm trees and vineyards, and cause rivers to flow abundantly in it,

  • Taqi Usmani

    Or you have a garden of date palms and grapes, then you bring forth rivers from their midst in abundance.

  • Abdul Haleem

    or until you have a garden of date palms and vines, and make rivers pour through them;

  • Arthur John Arberry

    or till thou possessest a garden of plants and vines, and thou makest rivers to gush forth abundantly all amongst it,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    or there be made for thee a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Or there be made for you a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them;

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Or (till) you have a garden of palms and vine (s); then you make rivers to erupt forth amidst it abundantly (Literally: with "all manner of" eruption).

  • George Sale

    or thou have a garden of palm-trees and vines, and thou cause rivers to spring forth from the midst thereof in abundance;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    "Or (unless) you have a garden of date-palm (trees), and grape-vines, and make rivers to come up in their midst carrying plenty of water;

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    `Or there be a garden of date-palms and vines for you, and you cause the streams to gush forth abundantly in its midst,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Or until you have a garden of date palms and vines and you make streams gush through it.