Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Are you harder in creation, or the sky? He built it;

ءَاَنْتُمْ اَشَدُّ خَلْقاً اَمِ السَّمَٓاءُۜ بَنٰيهَا۠
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami assamaobanaha
#wordmeaningroot
1a-antumAre you
2ashaddua more difficultشدد
3khalqancreationخلق
4amior
5l-samāuthe heavenسمو
6banāhāHe constructed itبني
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  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

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

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  • Muhammad Asad

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  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

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  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

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  • Bijan Moeinian

    Just think for a while. Are you more difficult to create than the universe that God has created?

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

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  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

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  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

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  • Taqi Usmani

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  • Abdul Haleem

    Which is harder to create: you people or the sky that He built,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    What, are you stronger in constitution or the heaven He built?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Are ye harder to create or the heaven that He has built?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He created it.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Are you harder in creation than the heaven? He built it!

  • George Sale

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  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    What! Are you (men) more difficult to make than the heaven (that Allah) has created:

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (O mankind!) are you harder to be created (again) or the heaven? He (the Almighty Lord) has made it.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Is it you whose creation is more prodigious or the sky which He has built?