18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 90
حَتّٰٓى اِذَا بَلَغَ مَطْلِعَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطْلُعُ عَلٰى قَوْمٍ لَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِهَا سِتْراًۙ
Hatta itha balagha matliAAaashshamsi wajadaha tatluAAu AAalaqawmin lam najAAal lahum min dooniha sitra
until he reached the rising of the sun and found it rising on a people to whom We had not given any shelter from it.
- Progressive Muslims
So when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people whom We did not make for them any cover except it.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Then he reached (Balkh in Afghanistan) the rising place of the sun, the easternmost point of his expedition. He found it rising on a people for whom We had appointed no shelter from it. (They built no houses and lived a nomadic life).
- Sam Gerrans
When he had reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising upon a people for whom We had not appointed besides it any cover.
- The Monotheist Group
So when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We did not make any cover except it.
- Edip-Layth
So when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people whom We did not provide them with coverings against it.
- Aisha Bewley
until he reached the rising of the sun and found it rising on a people to whom We had not given any shelter from it.
- Rashad Khalifa
When he reached the far east, he found the sun rising on people who had nothing to shelter them from it.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Till he reached the point of the rising sun, and saw it rise over a people for whom We had provided no shelter against it.
- Sahih International
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield.
- Muhammad Asad
[And then he marched eastwards] till, when he came to the rising of the sun he found that it was rising on a people for whom We had provided no coverings against it:
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Till, when he reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had appointed no shelter therefrom.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
He conducted an expedition eastward where the sun rises until he reached an open territory -probably a desert- where -he thought when viewing the horizon- the sun rises and where the people -who were primitive- had no covering besides the sun.
- Bijan Moeinian
I had not prepared any [natural] protection (such as a hill or the trees, etc. , i.e. a barren desert) against the sun.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Until, when he came to the rising place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We (Allâh) had provided no shelter against the sun.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun.
- Mustafa Khattab
until he reached the rising ˹point˺ of the sun. He found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it.[1]
- Taqi Usmani
until when he reached the point of sunrise, he found it rising over a people for whom We did not make any shelter against it.
- Abdul Haleem
then, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it.
- Arthur John Arberry
until, when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising upon a people for whom We had not appointed any veil to shade them from it.
- E. Henry Palmer
until when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rise upon a people to whom we had given no shelter therefrom.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Then he followed another way,
- Mahmoud Ghali
Until, when be reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising upon a people for whom We had not made a screen there from.
- George Sale
until he came to the place where the sun riseth; and he found it to rise on certain people, unto whom We had not given any thing wherewith to shelter themselves therefrom.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We (Allah) had provided no protection against the sun.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
So that when he reached the land of the rising of the sun (- eastern most point of his empire) he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter against it (- the sun).
- Ali Quli Qarai
When he reached the place where the sun rises, he found it rising on a people for whom We had not provided any shield against it.