Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And Our command is but one — as the twinkling of an eye.

وَمَٓا اَمْرُنَٓا اِلَّا وَاحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍ بِالْبَصَرِ
Wama amruna illa wahidatunkalamhin bilbasar
#wordmeaningroot
1wamāAnd not
2amrunā(is) Our Commandامر
3illābut
4wāḥidatunoneوحد
5kalamḥinlike the twinklingلمح
6bil-baṣari(of) the eyeبصر
  • Aisha Bewley

    Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And Our Command is but a single Word, like the twinkling of an eye.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And Our command is but one — as the twinkling of an eye.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Our commands are done within the blink of an eye.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And Our command is but one (word) swift as the winking of an eye.

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

    And Our command is but one, like a glance of the eye.

  • Muhammad Asad

    and Our ordaining is but one , like the twinkling of an eye.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And Our commandment is but one (commandment), as the twinkling of an eye.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Our command consists of only one Word which is carried out in the twinkling of an eye.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Thus, Our command to bring into being anything, spiritual animate or inanimate, or to bring into effect any proceedings is but a single act executed instantaneously, like the twinkle of an eye.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    It will take only a twinkle of an eye for My (God’s) command to be fulfilled.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And Our Commandment is but one as the twinkling of an eye.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Our command is but a single word, done in the blink of an eye.

  • Taqi Usmani

    And (implementation of) Our command is no more than a single act like the twinkling of an eye.

  • Abdul Haleem

    when We ordain something it happens at once, in the blink of an eye;

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Our commandment is but one word, as the twinkling of an eye.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and our bidding is but one (word), like the twinkling of an eye!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And Our command is but one, as the twinkling of an eye.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And in no way is Our Command anything except one (Word), as the twinkling of the eye. (Literally: the power of beholding)

  • George Sale

    And our command is no more than a single word, like the twinkling of an eye.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And Our Command is but a single (Act)— Like the twinkle of an eye.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Our command is (at once carried out by) only one (word) as quickly as the twinkling of an eye.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    and Our command is but a single , like the twinkling of an eye.