18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 41
اَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَٓاؤُ۬هَا غَوْراً فَلَنْ تَسْتَط۪يعَ لَهُ طَلَباً
Aw yusbiha maohaghawran falan tastateeAAa lahu talaba
or morning finds its water drained into the earth so that you cannot get at it. ’
- Progressive Muslims
"Or that its water becomes deep under-ground, so you will not be able to seek it. "
- Shabbir Ahmed
"Or, it may happen that the water level recedes low, out of your reach. " (Therefore we must invest for the Eternity as well).
- Sam Gerrans
“Or its water becomes sunken so that thou canst not find it.”
- The Monotheist Group
"Or that its water becomes deep under-ground, so you will not be capable of seeking it."
- Edip-Layth
"Or that its water becomes deep under-ground, so you will not be able to seek it."
- Aisha Bewley
or morning finds its water drained into the earth so that you cannot get at it. ’
- Rashad Khalifa
"Or, its water may sink deeper, out of your reach."
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Or else of a morning its water may sink underground, and you will not find a trace of it. "
- Sahih International
Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it. "
- Muhammad Asad
or its water sinks deep into the ground, so that thou wilt never be able to find it again!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Or some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that thou canst not make search for it.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
"or He may cause its water source sink below a reachable level that by trying to reach what is beyond your reach you reach nothing at all".
- Bijan Moeinian
"He may also order your water to sink deep, out of your reach. "
- Al-Hilali & Khan
"Or the water thereof (of the gardens) becomes deep-sunken (underground) so that you will never be able to seek it."
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
"Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that thou wilt never be able to find it."
- Mustafa Khattab
Or its water may sink ˹into the earth˺, and then you will never be able to seek it out."
- Taqi Usmani
Or, its water will sink deep in the earth, so that you will never be able to search it out."
- Abdul Haleem
or its water may sink so deep into the ground that you will never be able to reach it again.’
- Arthur John Arberry
or in the morning the water of it will be sunk into the earth, so that thou wilt not be able to seek it out. '
- E. Henry Palmer
or on the morrow its water may be deeply sunk, so that thou canst not get thereat!'
- Hamid S. Aziz
"It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and will send upon it a bolt from heaven, and it shall be but bare slippery mud on the morrow.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Or that in the morning its water will be deep-sunken so that you will never be able to seek it out. "
- George Sale
or its water may sink deep into the earth, that thou canst not draw thereof.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
"Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that you will never be able to find it. "
- Amatul Rahman Omar
`Or its water may be drained (into the earth) so that you will not be able to find it. '
- Ali Quli Qarai
Or its water will sink down, so that you cannot obtain it. ’