# 50. Surah Qaf, Verse 6 - **Surah:** 50. Surah Qaf (The letter Qaaf) — سورة ق - **Verse:** 6 / 45 · **Juz:** 26 · **Mushaf page:** 517 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-qaf/verse-6 ## Arabic اَفَلَمْ يَنْظُرُٓوا اِلَى السَّمَٓاءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَاهَا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِنْ فُرُوجٍ ## Transcription Afalam yanthuroo ila assama-ifawqahum kayfa banaynaha wazayyannahawama laha min furooj ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley Have they not looked at the sky above them: how We structured it and made it beautiful and how there are no fissures in it? ### Progressive Muslims Did they not look to the sky above them, how We built it, and adorned it, and how it has no openings ### Shabbir Ahmed Do they not look at the sky above them how We have built it and beautified it, and there are no flaws therein! ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation Have they not looked at the sky above them: — how We have built it, and made it fair, and it has no rifts? ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation Did they not look to the heaven above them, how We built it, and adorned it, and how it has no openings? ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament Have they not looked at the sky above them, and how we constructed it and adorned it, without a flaw? ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira Have they not looked at the sky above them, how We have fashioned and adorned it, and it has no flaw? ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts? ### Muhammad Asad Do they not look at the sky above them - how We have built it and made it beautiful and free of all faults? ### Marmaduke Pickthall Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein? ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary Did they[1] never observe the sky above them: how We built it and beautified it;[2] and it has no cracks;[3] _Footnotes_ - [1] Here, by the sky is implied the whole firmament that man finds spread over him, day and night, in which the sun shines in the day and the moon and countless stars glitter at night, which amazes him even when he sees it with the bare eye, but which appears as a vast, limitless universe when he looks at it through the telescope. - [2] This universe seems to be starting from nowhere and ending nowhere. Millions of times larger planets than our earth are moving in it like tiny balls; thousands of times brighter stars than our sun are shining in it our this entire solar system is located in a corner of its only one galaxy; only in this one galaxy there exist at least three thousand million other stars like our own sun, and man’s observation has so far discovered one million such galaxies. Out of the millions of galaxies our nearest, neighboring galaxy is so distant from us that its light reaches the earth in ten million years traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. This shows the vastness of that part of the universe which has so far been observed and explored by man. As to how vast is the entire universe of God we have no means to estimate and judge. May be that the known universe of man does not bear with the entire universe even that ratio which a drop of water bears with the ocean. If about the God Who has brought this huge and wonderful universe into being, this tiny talking animal, called man, who creeps on the earth, asserts that He cannot recreate him once again after death, it would be due to narrowness of his own mind. The power of the Creator of the universe would not at all be affected by it. - [3] That is, in spite of its amazing vastness the wonderful order of the universe is so coherent and firm and its composition so perfect that there is no crack or cleft in it, and its continuity breaks nowhere. This can be understood by an example. Radio astronomers of the present age have observed a galactic system which they have named Source 3C 295. They think that its rays which are now reaching us might have left it more than four thousand million years ago. The question is: How could it be possible for the rays to reach the earth from such a distant source had the continuity and coherence of the universe between the earth and the galaxy been broken somewhere and its composition been split at some point. Allah, in fact, alludes to this reality and puts this question before man: When you cannot point out even a small breach in this system of My universe, how did the concept of any weakness in My power enter your mind, that after the respite of your test is over, if I like to bring you back to life to subject you to accountability before Me, would I not be able to do so? ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab Did they not direct their intellectual eye at the heaven above them with its regions, spheres, realms of space and celestial bodies, and ponder how skillfully, powerfully and authoritatively did We construct and furnish with ornaments and with qualities that give distinction and render impossible any flaws? ### Bijan Moeinian How can they deny God’s word when they can easily look up in the sky and see the majesty of their Lord Who has created the heavens, has adorned it with the stars and haps put the most accurate mechanism foot the universe to function? ### Al-Hilali & Khan Have they not looked at the heaven above them, how We have made it and adorned it, and there are no rifts in it? ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali Do they not look at the sky above them?- How We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it? ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran Have they not then looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it ˹with stars˺, leaving it flawless? ### Taqi Usmani Did they not, then, look to the sky above them, how We have built it and beautified it, and it has no cracks? ### Abdul Haleem Do they not see the sky above them––how We have built and adorned it, with no rifts in it; ### Arthur John Arberry What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks? ### E. Henry Palmer Do not they behold the heaven above them, how we have built it and adorned it, and how it has no flaws? ### Hamid S. Aziz Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps (rifts or flaws)? ### Mahmoud Ghali Have they not then looked at the heaven above them, how We have built it, and adorned it, and (how) in no way has it any rifts? ### George Sale Do they not look up to the heaven above them, and consider how We have raised it and adorned it; and that there are no flaws therein? ### Syed Vickar Ahamed Do they not look at the sky above them, how We have made it and decorated it, and there are no flaws in it? ### Amatul Rahman Omar Do they not look at the sky above them, how We have made it and decked it out fair, so that it has no flaws? ### Ali Quli Qarai Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it? ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü (Kendilerini arz - beden kabullendikleri içindir ki) üstlerindeki semaya (bilinçlerine) bakmadılar mı ki, onu nasıl oluşturduk ve (duyularla) bezedik! Onun hiçbir kusuru da yoktur! ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Üzerlerindeki göğe bakmıyorlar mı? Biz, onu nasıl bina ettik ve onu nasıl süsledik? Onun hiçbir çatlağı yok. ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali Üstlerindeki göğü nasıl bina ettiğimize, onu nasıl süslediğimize ve onda hiçbir çatlağın olmadığına bakmazlar mı? ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Üstlerindeki göğe bakmazlar mı? Onu nasıl bina ettik, nasıl donattık! Onda hiçbir düzensizlik ve eksiklik yoktur. ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Artık üstlerindeki Semaya bir baksalar a, biz onu nasıl bina etmişiz ve ziynetlemişiz hiçbir gediği yok. ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Artık üstlerindeki göğe bir baksalar ya, Biz onu nasıl bina etmişiz ve süslemişiz; hiçbir gediği yok. ### Gültekin Onan Üzerlerindeki göğe bakmıyorlar mı? Biz, onu nasıl bina ettik ve onu nasıl süsledik? Onda hiçbir çatlak yok. ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim Üstlerindeki göğe bakmadılar mı, onu nasıl bina etdik. Onu (yıldızlarla) nasıl donatdık. Onun hiçbir gediği de yok. ### İbni Kesir Üstlerindeki göğe hiç bakmazlar mı? Onu nasıl bina etmiş ve nasıl donatmışız? Onda hiç bir çatlak da yoktur. ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı Onlar tepelerindeki gökyüzüne hiç bakmıyorlar mı? Onu nasıl inşa ettik, güzelleştirdik ve nasıl bütün kusurlardan, eksikliklerden arındırdık? ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Üzerlerindeki göğe hiç bakmıyorlar mı? Onu nasıl bina ettik, nasıl donattık, onda bir çatlak da yoktur. ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Üstlerindeki göğe bakmadılar mı, onu nasıl yaptık, süsledik, hiçbir çatlağı yoktur? ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Bakmadılar mı üstlerindeki göğe ki nasıl kurduk onu, nasıl süsleyip nakışladık?! Yırtığı, çatlağı da yoktur onun. ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Onlar üzerlerindeki göğe dönüp de bakmadılar mı? Onu nasıl inşa ettik ve ışıl ışıl bezedik; üstelik hiçbir eksik gedik bırakmadık! ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Öyleyse üzerlerindeki göğe bakmıyorlar mı ki, onu hiçbir çatlağı olmaksızın nasıl bina etmişiz, nasıl süslemişiz! ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Üstlerindeki gökyüzüne bakmıyorlar mı; onu nasıl yaptık ve süsledik? Onda bir eksiklik de yoktur. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Üstlerindeki göğe bakmazlar mı, nasıl yükseltmişiz ve nasıl süslemişiz. Onda çatlaklıklar yoktur. ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Üstlerindeki göğe bakmadılar mı hiç;[1] onu nasıl bina etmiş ve süslemişiz! Onda hiçbir eksik yoktur. _Footnotes_ - [1] Bu ve benzer ayetlerde evren kitabının incelenmesi emri verilmektedir. ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Öyleyse üzerlerindeki göğe bakmıyorlar mı ki, onu hiçbir çatlağı olmaksızın nasıl bina etmişiz, nasıl süslemişiz! ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Öyleyse üzerlerindeki göğe bakmıyorlar mı ki, onu hiçbir çatlağı olmaksızın nasıl bina etmişiz, nasıl süslemişiz! ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Üstlerindeki göğe hiç bakmadılar mı, onu nasıl bina etmiş ve süslemişiz? Onda hiçbir delik yoktur.[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] [Mülk 67/3](https://quran.so/67/3)-[4.](https://quran.so/67/4) ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | أَفَلَمْ — afalam | Then do not | — | | 2 | يَنظُرُوٓا۟ — yanẓurū | they look | نظر — Nun-Zay-Ra | | 3 | إِلَى — ilā | at | — | | 4 | ٱلسَّمَآءِ — l-samāi | the sky | سمو — Sin-Mim-Vav | | 5 | فَوْقَهُمْ — fawqahum | above them | فوق — Fe-Vav-Kaf | | 6 | كَيْفَ — kayfa | how | كيف — Kef-Ye-Fe | | 7 | بَنَيْنَـٰهَا — banaynāhā | We structured it | بني — Be-Nun-Ye | | 8 | وَزَيَّنَّـٰهَا — wazayyannāhā | and adorned it | زين — Ze-Ye-Nun | | 9 | وَمَا — wamā | and not | — | | 10 | لَهَا — lahā | for it | — | | 11 | مِن — min | any | — | | 12 | فُرُوجٍۢ — furūjin | rifts | فرج — Fe-Ra-Cim | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-qaf/verse-5.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-qaf/verse-7.md Retrieved: 2026-08-15 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.