53. Surah An-Najm, Verse 25
فَلِلّٰهِ الْاٰخِرَةُ وَالْاُو۫لٰى۟
Falillahi al-akhiratu wal-oola
The last and the first belong to Allah.
- Progressive Muslims
To God belongs the Hereafter, and the world.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Even though unto Allah belong the later life and the former. (His are the Keys of the heavens and the earth (7:96), (28:77), (39:63), (41:10), (42:12)).
- Sam Gerrans
Then to God belong the Latter and the Former.
- The Monotheist Group
To God belongs the end, and the beginning.
- Edip-Layth
To God belongs the Hereafter, and the world.
- Aisha Bewley
The last and the first belong to Allah.
- Rashad Khalifa
To GOD belongs both the Hereafter, and this world.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
To God belong the End and the Beginning.
- Sahih International
Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].
- Muhammad Asad
despite the fact that [both] the life to come and this present [one] belong to God [alone]?
- Marmaduke Pickthall
But unto Allah belongeth the after (life), and the former.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
But to Allah belong the future and the present, the end and the beginning, all things to be and all that has been, and Hereafter and here.
- Bijan Moeinian
No way. It is only the will of God which will be fulfilled in this world, as well as, in Hereafter.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
But to Allâh belongs the last (Hereafter) and the first (the world).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.
- Mustafa Khattab
In fact, to Allah ˹alone˺ belongs this world and the next.
- Taqi Usmani
(No,) because to Allah alone belongs the (good of) the Hereafter and the former life (of this world).
- Abdul Haleem
when the present life and the life to come belong only to God?
- Arthur John Arberry
And to God belongs the First and the Last.
- E. Henry Palmer
But God's is the hereafter and the present!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Nay! To Allah belongs the after and the former life (or the End and the Beginning).
- Mahmoud Ghali
Yet, to Allah belongs the Hereafter, and the First (life).
- George Sale
The life to come, and the present life are God's:
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
But it is Allah to Whom the end and the beginning (of everything) belong.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Rather (all the blessings of) the Hereafter as well as (those of) this present life belong to Allâh.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Yet to Allah belong this world and the Hereafter.