67. Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 30
قُلْ اَرَاَيْتُمْ اِنْ اَصْبَحَ مَٓاؤُ۬كُمْ غَوْراً فَمَنْ يَأْت۪يكُمْ بِمَٓاءٍ مَع۪ينٍ
Qul araaytum in asbaha maokumghawran faman ya/teekum bima-in maAAeen
Say: ‘What do you think? If, one morning, your water disappears into the earth who will bring you running water?’
- Progressive Muslims
Say: "What if your water becomes deep underground, who then can provide you with pure water"
- Shabbir Ahmed
Say, "Do you see? If all your water were to vanish into the earth, who, then, could bring you fresh water springs?" ((56:63-74), (67:21). Likewise, who can bestow upon you the graceful Spring of guidance but Allah?)
- Sam Gerrans
Say thou: “Have you considered: if your water should become sunken, then who would bring you running water?”
- The Monotheist Group
Say: "What if your water becomes deep underground, who then can provide you with pure water?"
- Edip-Layth
Say, "What if your water becomes deep underground, who then can provide you with pure water?"
- Aisha Bewley
Say: ‘What do you think? If, one morning, your water disappears into the earth who will bring you running water?’
- Rashad Khalifa
Say, "What if your water sinks away, who will provide you with pure water?"
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Say: "Just think: If your water were to dry up in the morning who will bring you water from a fresh, flowing stream?"
- Sahih International
Say, "Have you considered: if your water was to become sunken [into the earth], then who could bring you flowing water?"
- Muhammad Asad
Say [unto those who deny the truth]: "What do you think? If of a sudden all your water were to vanish underground, who [but God] could provide you with water from [new] unsullied springs?"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Say: Have ye thought: If (all) your water were to disappear into the earth, who then could bring you gushing water?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Say to them: "What if your water suddenly sinks to an unreachable level and disappears"! "Who else can possibly supply you with streaming water, or will listen to you when you crave for assistance, or your prayer for help He hears?"
- Bijan Moeinian
Tell them: "If God decides to dry up your source of the water [that you take it for granted], who else beside God you have to turn to restore to you the running springs of water?
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Tell me! If (all) your water were to sink away, who then can supply you with flowing (spring) water?"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Say: "See ye?- If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth), who then can supply you with clear-flowing water?"
- Mustafa Khattab
Say, "Consider this: if your water were to sink ˹into the earth˺, then who ˹else˺ could bring you flowing water?"
- Taqi Usmani
Say, "Tell me, Should your water vanish into the earth, who will bring you a flowing (stream of) water?
- Abdul Haleem
Say, ‘Just think: if all your water were to sink deep into the earth who could give you flowing water in its place?’
- Arthur John Arberry
Say: 'What think you? If in the morning your water should have vanished into the earth, then who would bring you running water?'
- E. Henry Palmer
Say, 'Have ye considered if your waters on the morrow should have sunk, who is to bring you flowing water?'
- Hamid S. Aziz
Say, "Have you considered if all your water should some morning be lost down into the earth, who is it then that will supply you clear flowing water?"
- Mahmoud Ghali
Say, "Have you seen (that) in case your water becomes in the morning deep-sunken, (i. e., in the earth) then who would come up to you with (i.e., bring) profuse water?"
- George Sale
Say, what think ye? If your water be in the morning swallowed up by the earth, who will give you clear and running water?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Say: "Do you see?— That if your streams (in the underground earth), on some morning become lost, then who can supply you with clear-flowing water?"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Say, `Have you considered if (all) your water were to disappear (in the depths of the earth) who, then, will bring you pure flowing water?'
- Ali Quli Qarai
Say, ‘Tell me, should your water sink down [into the ground], who will bring you running water?’