Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

By the sky full of returning!

وَالسَّمَٓاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِۙ
Wassama-i thati arrajAA
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  • Aisha Bewley

    By Heaven with its cyclical systems

  • Progressive Muslims

    And the sky which gives rain.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Witness is the high atmosphere that keeps returning (its water, gases and other composition).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    By the sky full of returning!

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Andthe sky which gives rain.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The sky which gives rain.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    By the sky that returns

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    So I call to witness the rain-producing sky,

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

    By the sky which returns

  • Muhammad Asad

    Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    By the heaven which giveth the returning rain,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    By the heaven with its recurring cycle of rain,*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    By the heaven and what it returns of condensed water vapour as rain and what it reflects of the various kinds of waves,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    I (God) swear by the same sky…

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    By the Firmament which returns (in its round),

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    By the sky with its recurring cycles,

  • Taqi Usmani

    I swear by the sky that rains,

  • Abdul Haleem

    By the sky and its recurring rain,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    By heaven of the returning rain,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    By the heaven that sends back the rain!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    By the Firmament which returns in its rounds,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    By the heaven comprising the returning (rain) (Or: the rotating rain),

  • George Sale

    By the heaven which returneth the rain;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    By the sky that returns (with rains again and again),

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    I call to witness the clouds that rain over and over again,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    By the resurgent sky,