70. Surah Al-Ma'arij, Verse 40
فَلَٓا اُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ اِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَۙ
Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqiwalmagharibi inna laqadiroon
No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests that We have the power
- Progressive Muslims
So I swear by the Lord of the east and the west that We are able.
- Shabbir Ahmed
But nay! I call to Witness the Lord of all points in the East and all points in the West, behold, We are Able -
- Sam Gerrans
Then do I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are able
- The Monotheist Group
So I do swear by the Lord of the east and the west, that We are able.
- Edip-Layth
So I swear by the Lord of the east and the west that We are able.
- Aisha Bewley
No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests that We have the power
- Rashad Khalifa
I solemnly swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; we are able -
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
So I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
- Sahih International
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
- Muhammad Asad
But nay! I call to witness [Our being] the Sustainer of all the points of sunrise and sunset: verily, well able are We
- Marmaduke Pickthall
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places of the planets that We verily are Able
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
I swear by the Creator of all eastern cardinal points near which the sun rises in its apparent passage through the signs of the Zodiac and the Creator of all the western cardinal points lying opposite those in the east and near which the sun sets, that We are able to effect any changes at will;
- Bijan Moeinian
Your Lord solemnly swears that as He is able to make the stars to rise and to die, …
- Al-Hilali & Khan
So I swear by the Lord of all the [three hundred and sixty-five (365)] points of sunrise and sunset in the east and the west that surely We are Able
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Now I do call to witness the Lord of all points in the East and the West that We can certainly-
- Mustafa Khattab
So, I do swear by the Lord of ˹all˺ the points of sunrise and sunset[1] that We are truly capable
- Taqi Usmani
So, I swear by the Lord of the points of sunrise and those of sunset, We are powerful
- Abdul Haleem
and, by the Lord of every sunrise and sunset, We have the power
- Arthur John Arberry
No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are able
- E. Henry Palmer
And I need not swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; verily, we are able
- Hamid S. Aziz
But nay! I swear by (or call to witness) the Lord of all points of the rising and setting places East and West that We are certainly Able
- Mahmoud Ghali
Yet no, I swear by The Lord of the easts and the wests; surely We are indeed (the) Determiners.
- George Sale
I swear by the Lord of the east and of the west, that We are able to destroy them,
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
But now, I swear by the Lord of (every point in) the Easts' and the Wests' that We can certainly—
- Amatul Rahman Omar
But nay! I call to witness the Lord of the easts and the wests. We are certainly Powerful
- Ali Quli Qarai
So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests that We are able