36. Surah Ya-Sin, Verse 40

The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit.

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day. All of them swim along in their orbits. (The sun cannot cause the moon to gravitate towards itself and the night and the day cannot lengthen or shorten other than the appointed measure (21:33), (22:61), (25:62), (31:29), (41:37), (57:6)).

It behoves not the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day; and each is in a circuit swimming.

The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit.

The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit.

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere.

The sun is never to catch up with the moon - the night and the day never deviate - each of them is floating in its own orbit.

Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit.

It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.

[and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws].

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.

The sun ought not gain impetus more than the limit designated so that it does not catch up the moon or overtake it in motion nor does the night outrun the day and each describes its own orbit.

God has put such an impeccable order in the nature that neither sun can overtake the moon nor the night to outstrip the day. Everything is gliding in its predetermined order in the universe.

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit.

It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law).

It is not for the sun to catch up with the moon,[1] nor does the night outrun the day. Each is travelling in an orbit of their own.

Neither it is for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day. Each one is floating in an orbit.

The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day: each floats in [its own] orbit.

It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky.

Neither is it proper for it to catch up the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day, but each one floats on in its sky.

Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in their own orbits.

It does not behoove the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the daytime, and each is swimming in an orbit.

It is not expedient that the sun should overtake the moon in her course; neither doth the night outstrip the day: But each of these luminaries moveth in a peculiar orbit.

It is not allowed for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night overtake the day: Each (can only) stay on in (its own) path (according to the Order of Allah).

It is not given to the sun to attain to (the purpose ordained for) the moon, nor is it given to the night to outstrip the day. All of these (luminaries) go on floating smoothly in an orbit (of their own).

Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit.