54. Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 50
وَمَٓا اَمْرُنَٓا اِلَّا وَاحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍ بِالْبَصَرِ
Wama amruna illa wahidatunkalamhin bilbasar
Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye.
- Progressive Muslims
And Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And Our Command is but a single Word, like the twinkling of an eye.
- Sam Gerrans
And Our command is but one — as the twinkling of an eye[...].
- The Monotheist Group
And Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.
- Edip-Layth
Our commands are done at once with the blink of an eye.
- Aisha Bewley
Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye.
- Rashad Khalifa
Our commands are done within the blink of an eye.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
And Our command is but one (word) swift as the winking of an eye.
- Sahih International
And Our command is but one, like a glance of the eye.
- Muhammad Asad
and Our ordaining [a thing and its coming into being] is but one [act], like the twinkling of an eye.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And Our commandment is but one (commandment), as the twinkling of an eye.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Thus, Our command to bring into being anything, spiritual animate or inanimate, or to bring into effect any proceedings is but a single act executed instantaneously, like the twinkle of an eye.
- Bijan Moeinian
It will take only a twinkle of an eye for My (God’s) command to be fulfilled.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And Our Commandment is but one as the twinkling of an eye.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.
- Mustafa Khattab
Our command[1] is but a single word,[2] done in the blink of an eye.
- Taqi Usmani
And (implementation of) Our command is no more than a single act like the twinkling of an eye.
- Abdul Haleem
when We ordain something it happens at once, in the blink of an eye;
- Arthur John Arberry
Our commandment is but one word, as the twinkling of an eye.
- E. Henry Palmer
and our bidding is but one (word), like the twinkling of an eye!
- Hamid S. Aziz
And Our command is but one, as the twinkling of an eye.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And in no way is Our Command anything except one (Word), as the twinkling of the eye. (Literally: the power of beholding)
- George Sale
And our command is no more than a single word, like the twinkling of an eye.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And Our Command is but a single (Act)— Like the twinkle of an eye.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Our command is (at once carried out by) only one (word) as quickly as the twinkling of an eye.
- Ali Quli Qarai
and Our command is but a single [word], like the twinkling of an eye.