# 91. Surah Ash-Shams, Verse 5 - **Surah:** 91. Surah Ash-Shams (The Sun) — سورة الشمس - **Verse:** 5 / 15 · **Juz:** 30 · **Mushaf page:** 594 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-ash-shams/verse-5 ## Arabic وَالسَّمَٓاءِ وَمَا بَنٰيهَاۙۖ ## Transcription Wassama-i wama banaha ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley and the sky and what erected it ### Progressive Muslims And the sky and what He built. ### Shabbir Ahmed And the sky and its wondrous design. ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation And by the sky and Him that built it! ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation And the heaven and what He built. ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament The sky and Him who built it. ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira The heavens and its architecture, ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) And [by] the sky and He who constructed it ### Muhammad Asad Consider the sky and its wondrous make, ### Marmaduke Pickthall And the heaven and Him Who built it, ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary and by the sky and by Him Who made it;[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] Who established it: Who established it like a vault over the earth. In this verse and in the two succeeding verses, the word ma has been used. A section of the commentators has taken this ma as an infinitive, and interpreted these verses to mean: By the heaven and its being established, by the earth and its being spread out, and by the human self and its being balanced. But this meaning is not correct for the reason that the following sentence: Then inspired it with its wickedness and its piety, does not fit in with the context. Other commentators have taken ma here in the meaning of mun or alladhi and they interpret the sentence to mean: Who established the heaven, who spread out the earth, and who balanced the human self. This second meaning is correct in our view, and no one can object that ma in Arabic is used of lifeless things and irrational creatures, For in the Quran itself there are numerous instances that ma has been used in the meaning of mun, e.g. wala antum abiduna ma aabud (nor are you the worshippers of Him Whom I worship), fankihu ma taba lakun-mia-an-nisa (so, marry from among the women those whom you like), wala tankihu ma nakaha abaaukum min-nisa (do not marry those women whom your fathers had married). ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab By the heaven and the way it was constructed, * ### Bijan Moeinian And by the universe and the One Who created it. ### Al-Hilali & Khan By the heaven and Him Who built it. ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure; ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran And by heaven and ˹the One˺ Who built it, ### Taqi Usmani and by the sky, and the One who built it, ### Abdul Haleem by the sky and how He built it ### Arthur John Arberry By the heaven and That which built it ### E. Henry Palmer And the heaven and what built it! ### Hamid S. Aziz And the wondrous structure of the heavens and Him who built it! ### Mahmoud Ghali And (by) the heaven and That (i. e., The Command) which built it, ### George Sale by the heaven, and Him who built it; ### Syed Vickar Ahamed And by the sky and its (wonderful) structure; ### Amatul Rahman Omar And the heaven and That (Great Omnifice Divinity) Who made it, ### Ali Quli Qarai by the sky and Him who built it, ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü Semaya ve onu bina edene; ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Göğe ve onu bina edene, ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali - Güneşe ve onun aydınlık veren parlaklığına; onu izlediğinde aya; güneşi açığa çıkardığında gündüze; güneşi örttüğünde geceye; göğe ve onu bina edene; yere ve onu döşeyene; nefse ve onu şekillendirene; nefse, kötülüğe ve korunmaya açık özelliklerini verene yemin olsun ki, ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Göğe ve onu bina edene andolsun, ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Ve göğe ve onu bina edene ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) göğe ve onu bina edene, ### Gültekin Onan Göğe ve onu bina edene, ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim göğe ve onu bina edene, ### İbni Kesir Göğe ve onu bina edene, ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı Gökyüzünü ve onun harika yapısını düşün, ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Göğe ve onu bina edene. ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Göğe ve onu yapana andolsun. ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Göğe ve onu kurana, ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Gökyüzü ve onu ayakta tutan (nizam) şahit olsun; ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Ve göğe ve onu düzenleyene, ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Gökyüzüne ve onu yapana! ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Gök ve onu bina eden, ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Göğe ve onu bina edene, ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Ve göğe ve onu düzenleyene, ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Ve göğe ve onu düzenleyene, ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Göğe ve onu bina edene,[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] [Kaf 50/6,](https://quran.so/50/6) [Zariyat 51/47,](https://quran.so/51/47) [Naziat 79/27](https://quran.so/79/27)-[28.](https://quran.so/79/28) ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | وَٱلسَّمَآءِ — wal-samāi | And the heaven | سمو — Sin-Mim-Vav | | 2 | وَمَا — wamā | and (He) Who | — | | 3 | بَنَىٰهَا — banāhā | constructed it | بني — Be-Nun-Ye | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-ash-shams/verse-4.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-ash-shams/verse-6.md Retrieved: 2026-08-12 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.