Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Then he called to her, from below her: “Grieve thou not; thy Lord has placed beneath thee a stream.

فَنَادٰيهَا مِنْ تَحْتِهَٓا اَلَّا تَحْزَن۪ي قَدْ جَعَلَ رَبُّكِ تَحْتَكِ سَرِياًّ
Fanadaha min tahtihaalla tahzanee qad jaAAala rabbuki tahtakisariyya
#wordmeaningroot
1fanādāhāSo cried to herندو
2minfrom
3taḥtihābeneath herتحت
4allāThat (do) not
5taḥzanīgrieveحزن
6qadverily
7jaʿala(has) placedجعل
8rabbukiyour Lordربب
9taḥtakibeneath youتحت
10sariyyana streamسري
  • Aisha Bewley

    A voice called out to her from under her, ‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has placed a small stream at your feet.

  • Progressive Muslims

    But then he called to her from beneath her: "Do not be sad, your Lord has made below you a stream. "

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    A voice came to her from beneath the palm-tree, "Grieve not! Your Lord has provided a rivulet beneath you. "

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Then he called to her, from below her: “Grieve thou not; thy Lord has placed beneath thee a stream.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    But then he called to her from beneath her: "Do not be sad, your Lord has made below you a stream."

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    But then he called to her from beneath her: "Do not be sad, your Lord has made below you a stream."

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    (The infant) called her from beneath her, saying, "Do not grieve. Your Lord has provided you with a stream.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then (a voice) called to her from below: "Grieve not; your Lord has made a rivulet gush forth right below you.

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

    But he called her from below her, "Do not grieve; your Lord has provided beneath you a stream.

  • Muhammad Asad

    Thereupon called out to her from beneath that : "Grieve not! Thy Sustainer has provided a rivulet beneath thee;

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Then (one) cried unto her from below her, saying: Grieve not! Thy Lord hath placed a rivulet beneath thee,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Thereupon the angel below her cried out: "Grieve not, for your Lord has caused a stream of water to flow beneath you.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    There and then, a cry -of triumph and joy came out from below. The new born said to her: "Do not lament the event, Allah, your Creator, has provided beneath you a brook that is moved for you".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Then she heard a voice beneath her (most probably baby Jesus) saying:

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then cried unto her from below her, saying: "Grieve not: your Lord has provided a water stream under you.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    So a voice reassured her from below her, "Do not grieve! Your Lord has provided a stream at your feet.

  • Taqi Usmani

    Then he called her from beneath her: "Do not grieve; your Lord has placed a stream beneath you.

  • Abdul Haleem

    but a voice cried to her from below, ‘Do not worry: your Lord has provided a stream at your feet

  • Arthur John Arberry

    But the one that was below her called to her, 'Nay, do not sorrow; see, thy Lord has set below thee a rivulet.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and he called to her from beneath her, 'Grieve not, for thy Lord has placed a stream beneath thy feet;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And the labour pains came upon her at the trunk of a palm tree, and she said, "O that I had died before this, and become a thing of naught, forgotten!"

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then (one) called out to her from beneath her, "Do not grieve. Your Lord has already made beneath you a rivulet.

  • George Sale

    And He who was beneath her called to her, saying, be not grieved: Now hath God provided a rivulet under thee;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then (a voice) cried to her from under (the tree): "Do not feel sad! Because your Lord has made (for you) a stream underneath you;

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Then a voice called her from the side of the slope by her (saying), `Do not grieve, your Lord has placed a rivulet on the side of the slope by you (and a chief of the nation has born to you).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Thereupon he called her from below her ‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has made a spring to flow at your feet.