23. Surah Al-Mu'minun, Verse 84
قُلْ لِمَنِ الْاَرْضُ وَمَنْ ف۪يهَٓا اِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
Qul limani al-ardu waman feehain kuntum taAAlamoon
Say: ‘To whom does the earth belong, and everyone in it, if you have any knowledge?’
- Progressive Muslims
Say: "To whom is the Earth and whosoever is in it if you know"
- Shabbir Ahmed
Say, "Unto whom belongs the earth and all that lives thereon, if you happen to know?"
- Sam Gerrans
Say thou: “To whom belong the earth and whoso is therein, if you know?”
- The Monotheist Group
Say: "To whom is the earth and whoever is in it if you know?"
- Edip-Layth
Say, "To whom the earth is and whosoever is in it if you know?"
- Aisha Bewley
Say: ‘To whom does the earth belong, and everyone in it, if you have any knowledge?’
- Rashad Khalifa
Say, "To whom belongs the earth and everyone on it, if you know?"
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Say: "To whom does the earth and whosoever is upon it then belong, if you know?"
- Sahih International
Say, [O Muúammad], "To whom belongs the earth and whoever is in it, if you should know?"
- Muhammad Asad
Say: "Unto whom belongs the earth and all that lives there on? [Tell me this] if you happen to know [the answer]!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Say: Unto Whom (belongeth) the earth and whosoever is therein, if ye have knowledge?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Ask them O Muhammad: "To whom belong the earth and all the animate and the inanimate created beings thereon! Tell me if you know!"
- Bijan Moeinian
Ask them: "Do you know to whom belongs the earth and all its living species?"
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Say: "Whose is the earth and whosoever is therein? If you know!"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Say: "To whom belong the earth and all beings therein? (say) if ye know!"
- Mustafa Khattab
Ask ˹them, O Prophet˺, "To whom belong the earth and all those on it, if you ˹really˺ know?"
- Taqi Usmani
Say, "Whose is the earth and all those therein if you have knowledge?"
- Abdul Haleem
Say [Prophet], ‘Who owns the earth and all who live in it, if you know [so much]?’
- Arthur John Arberry
Say: 'Whose is the earth, and whoso is in it, if you have knowledge?'
- E. Henry Palmer
Say, 'Whose is the earth and those who are therein, if ye but know?'
- Hamid S. Aziz
"We were already promised this, we and our forefathers. Lo! this is naught but old folks' tales!"
- Mahmoud Ghali
Say, "To whom does the earth belong, and whoever is in it, in case you know?"
- George Sale
Say, whose is the earth, and whoever therein is; if ye know?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Say: "To whom belong the earth and all beings in there? (Answer) if you know!"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Ask, `(Tell me) if you know whom the earth and all the creatures therein belong to. '
- Ali Quli Qarai
Say, ‘To whom does the earth belong and whoever it contains, if you know?’