55. Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 20
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَا يَبْغِيَانِۚ
Baynahuma barzakhun la yabghiyan
with a barrier between them they do not break through.
- Progressive Muslims
A barrier is placed between them, which they do not cross.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Yet, there is a Barrier between them that they cannot exceed. (The great bodies of salt water and fresh water).
- Sam Gerrans
Between them a barrier they transgress not;
- The Monotheist Group
A barrier is placed between them, which they do not cross.
- Edip-Layth
A barrier is placed between them, which they do not cross.
- Aisha Bewley
with a barrier between them they do not break through.
- Rashad Khalifa
A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
With an interstice between them which they cannot cross.
- Sahih International
Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.
- Muhammad Asad
[yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
There is a barrier between them. They encroach not (one upon the other).
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And He set up an immaterial and natural barrier between them so that none of them gains advantage on the kingdom of the other
- Bijan Moeinian
wherein they do not get diluted in each other [the warm water of Gulf Stream, for example, does not mix with the water of Atlantic Ocean for thousands of miles].
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress:
- Mustafa Khattab
yet between them is a barrier they never cross.[1]
- Taqi Usmani
while there is a barrier between them; they do not encroach (upon one another).
- Abdul Haleem
yet there is a barrier between them they do not cross.
- Arthur John Arberry
between them a barrier they do not overpass.
- E. Henry Palmer
between them is a barrier they cannot pass!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Between them is a barrier which they do not transgress.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Between them (both) is an isthmus (i. e., an obstruction) (which) they do not overpass. (Literally: none of them is inequitable)
- George Sale
Between them is placed a bar which they cannot pass.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Between them is a barrier that they do not willfully overstep;
- Amatul Rahman Omar
(At present) a barrier stands between them. They cannot encroach one upon the other.
- Ali Quli Qarai
There is a barrier between them which they do not overstep.