36. Surah Ya-Sin, Verse 39
وَالْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَاهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتّٰى عَادَ كَالْعُرْجُونِ الْقَد۪يمِ
Walqamara qaddarnahu manazilahatta AAada kalAAurjooni alqadeem
And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up looking like an old palm spathe.
- Progressive Muslims
And the moon We have measured it to appear in stages, until it returns to being like an old curved sheath.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And the moon: We have measured for it phases until it becomes (a crescent) like an old curved date-stalk.
- Sam Gerrans
And the moon: We have determined for it phases, until it returns like the old date-leaf stalk.
- The Monotheist Group
And the moon We have measured it to appear in stages, until it returns like an old palm sheath.
- Edip-Layth
The moon: We have measured it to appear in stages, until it returns to being like an old curved sheath.
- Aisha Bewley
And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up looking like an old palm spathe.
- Rashad Khalifa
The moon we designed to appear in stages, until it becomes like an old curved sheath.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
We have determined the stations of the moon, so that (after its wanderings) it returns as a dried up inflorescent spike of dates.
- Sahih International
And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.
- Muhammad Asad
and [in] the moon, for which We have determined phases [which it must traverse] till it becomes like an old date-stalk, dried-up and curved:
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And for the moon We have determined mansions or divisions of the ecliptic which it occupies on 28 successive days and there it falls in a swoon and be like a shriveled and withered date-stalk.
- Bijan Moeinian
Look at the moon which God has designed it to appear in different stages.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And the moon, We have measured for it mansions (to traverse) till it returns like the old dried curved date stalk.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And the Moon,- We have measured for her mansions (to traverse) till she returns like the old (and withered) lower part of a date-stalk.
- Mustafa Khattab
As for the moon, We have ordained ˹precise˺ phases for it, until it ends up ˹looking˺ like an old, curved palm stalk.
- Taqi Usmani
And for the moon We have appointed measured phases, until it turned (pale, curved and fine) like an old branch of date palm.
- Abdul Haleem
We have determined phases for the moon until finally it becomes like an old date-stalk.
- Arthur John Arberry
And the moon -- We have determined it by stations, till it returns like an aged palm-bough.
- E. Henry Palmer
And the moon, we have ordered for it stations, until it comes again to be like an old dry palm branch.
- Hamid S. Aziz
And as for the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm leaf.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And the moon, We have determined it by phases, till it becomes again (Literally: goes back) like the old date-stalk.
- George Sale
And for the moon have We appointed certain mansions, until she change and return to be like the old branch of a palm-tree.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And the moon— We have measured for it stages (to travel) till it comes back like the old (and worn out like the) lower part of a (crescent, dried out) date stalk.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And (think over the phase of) the moon, We have determined its various mansions, so that (after traversing these mansions) it returns (to the stage when it appears) like an old dry twig of a palm-tree.
- Ali Quli Qarai
As for the moon, We have ordained its phases, until it becomes like an old palm leaf.