The Qur'an

Arabic

أَمْ خُلِقُوا۟ مِنْ غَيْرِ شَىْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰلِقُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or were they created of themselves? Or are they the creators?

Ali Qarai

Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators?

Amhad Khan

Have they not been created from some source, or are they themselves the creators?

Arberry

Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?

Corpus

Or they were created of nothing, or (are) they the creators?

Daryabadi

Have they not been created by aught, or are they the creators?

Hilali & Khan

Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

Maududi

Did they come into being without any creator? Or were they their own creators?

Muhammad Sarwar

Have they been created from nothing or are they themselves their own creators?

Muhammad Shakir

Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators?

Pickthall

Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators?

Qaribullah

Or, were they created out of nothing? Or, were they their own creators?

Sahih Intl

Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

Talal Itani

Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?

Transliteration

Am khuliqoo min ghayri shayin am humu alkhaliqoona

Wahihuddin Khan

Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators?

Yusuf Ali

Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

Arabic

أَمْ خَلَقُوا۟ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ ۚ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or have they created the heavens and the earth? In fact they are certain of nothing.

Ali Qarai

Did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they have no certainty!

Amhad Khan

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather they are not certain.

Arberry

Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith.

Corpus

Or (did) they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, not they are certain.

Daryabadi

Created they the heavens and the earth! Aye! they will not be convinced.

Hilali & Khan

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief.

Maududi

Or is it they who created the heavens and the earth? No; the truth is that they lack sure faith.

Muhammad Sarwar

Have they created the heavens and the earth? In fact, they have no strong faith.

Muhammad Shakir

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay! they have no certainty.

Pickthall

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they are sure of nothing!

Qaribullah

Or, did they create the heavens and the earth? No, their belief is not certain!

Sahih Intl

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

Talal Itani

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? In fact, they are not certain.

Transliteration

Am khalaqoo alssamawati waalarda bal la yooqinoona

Wahihuddin Khan

Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They have no faith.

Yusuf Ali

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.

Arabic

أَمْ عِندَهُمْ خَزَآئِنُ رَبِّكَ أَمْ هُمُ ٱلْمُصَۣيْطِرُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Do they possess the treasures of your Lord? Or are they the treasurers?

Ali Qarai

Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or do they control [them]?

Amhad Khan

Or do they have the treasures of your Lord, or are they the authority?

Arberry

Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars?

Corpus

Or with them (are the) treasures (of) your Lord or (are) they the controllers?

Daryabadi

Are with them the treasures of thy Lord! or are they the dispensers?

Hilali & Khan

Or are with them the treasures of your Lord? Or are they the tyrants with the authority to do as they like?

Maududi

Or do they have your Lord's treasures in their keeping? Or have absolute authority over them?

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they own the treasures of your Lord? Have they any authority over God?

Muhammad Shakir

Or have they the treasures of your Lord with them? Or have they been set in absolute authority?

Pickthall

Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord? Or have they been given charge (thereof)?

Qaribullah

Or, are the treasures of your Lord in their keeping? Or, are they the controllers?

Sahih Intl

Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?

Talal Itani

Or do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or are they the controllers?

Transliteration

Am AAindahum khazainu rabbika am humu almusaytiroona

Wahihuddin Khan

Do they own the treasures of your Lord, or have they been given charge of them?

Yusuf Ali

Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?

Arabic

أَمْ لَهُمْ سُلَّمٌ يَسْتَمِعُونَ فِيهِ ۖ فَلْيَأْتِ مُسْتَمِعُهُم بِسُلْطَٰنٍ مُّبِينٍ

Ahmad Ali

Or do they have a ladder (climbing which) they can hear (the secrets of heaven)? Let one who has heard then bring a clear proof.

Ali Qarai

Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven] whereby they eavesdrop? If so, let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority.

Amhad Khan

Or do they have any stairs, climbing upon which they eavesdrop? So their eavesdropper should bring some clear proof!

Arberry

Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.

Corpus

Or for them (is) a stairway, they listen therewith? Then let bring, their listener, an authority clear.

Daryabadi

Have they a stairway whereby they overhear? Then let their listener bring an authority manifest.

Hilali & Khan

Or have they a stairway (to heaven), by means of which they listen (to the talks of the angels)? Then let their listener produce some manifest proof.

Maududi

Or do they have a ladder whereon they can climb and attempt to listen (to what is transpiring in the Higher Realm)? Then, let any of them who has listened to it produce a clear proof of it.

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they have a ladder (by which they can climb up to the heavens) and listen (to the angels) and come back to the rest of the people with clear authority?

Muhammad Shakir

Or have they the means by which they listen? Then let their listener bring a clear authority.

Pickthall

Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!

Qaribullah

Or, do they have a ladder on which they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.

Sahih Intl

Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority.

Talal Itani

Or do they have a stairway by means of which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear proof.

Transliteration

Am lahum sullamun yastamiAAoona feehi falyati mustamiAAuhum bisultanin mubeenin

Wahihuddin Khan

Have they a ladder up to heaven by means of which they can overhear? Then let their listeners bring a clear proof.

Yusuf Ali

Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.

Arabic

أَمْ لَهُ ٱلْبَنَٰتُ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْبَنُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Has (God) daughters and they sons?

Ali Qarai

Does He have daughters while you have sons?

Amhad Khan

What! The daughters for Him, and the sons for you?

Arberry

Or has He daughters, and they sons?

Corpus

Or for Him (are) daughters while for you (are) sons?

Daryabadi

Hath He daughters and ye sons?

Hilali & Khan

Or has He (Allah) only daughters and you have sons?

Maududi

Or does Allah have daughters whereas you have sons?

Muhammad Sarwar

Do the daughters belong to Him and the sons to you?

Muhammad Shakir

Or has He daughters while you have sons?

Pickthall

Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?

Qaribullah

Or, has He daughters, and they sons?

Sahih Intl

Or has He daughters while you have sons?

Talal Itani

Or for Him the daughters, and for you the sons?

Transliteration

Am lahu albanatu walakumu albanoona

Wahihuddin Khan

Does God have daughters while you have sons?

Yusuf Ali

Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?

Arabic

أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or do you demand any wages from them so that they are burdened with expense?

Ali Qarai

Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are [wary of] being weighed down with debt?

Amhad Khan

Or do you (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him) ask any fee from them, so they are burdened with the penalty?

Arberry

Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt?

Corpus

Or (do) you ask from them a payment, so they from a debt (are) overburdened.

Daryabadi

Or askest thou a hire from them so that they are with debt laden?

Hilali & Khan

Or is it that you (O Muhammad SAW) ask a wage from them (for your preaching of Islamic Monotheism) so that they are burdened with a load of debt?

Maududi

Or is it that you ask of them any recompense so that they should fear to be weighed down under the burden of debt?

Muhammad Sarwar

Do you (Muhammad) ask them for any payment (for your preaching) which they cannot afford?

Muhammad Shakir

Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are overburdened by a debt?

Pickthall

Or askest thou (Muhammad) a fee from them so that they are plunged in debt?

Qaribullah

Or, do you ask them for a wage, so that they become weighed down in debt?

Sahih Intl

Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

Talal Itani

Or do you demand a payment from them, and they are burdened by debt?

Transliteration

Am tasaluhum ajran fahum min maghramin muthqaloona

Wahihuddin Khan

Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are over-burdened by debt?

Yusuf Ali

Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-

Arabic

أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or do they have knowledge of the Unknown which they write down?

Ali Qarai

Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down?

Amhad Khan

Or is the hidden with them, by which they pass judgements?

Arberry

Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down?

Corpus

Or with them (is) the unseen, so they write (it) down?

Daryabadi

Is with them the Unseen, and they write it down!

Hilali & Khan

Or that the Ghaib (unseen) is with them, and they write it down?

Maududi

Or is it that they have access to (the Truths in) the realm beyond sense-perception which they are writing down?

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they have knowledge of the unseen, thus, are able to predict (the future)?

Muhammad Shakir

Or have they the unseen so that they write (it) down?

Pickthall

Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write (it) down?

Qaribullah

Or, is the Unseen in their keeping, so they are writing it down?

Sahih Intl

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

Talal Itani

Or do they know the future, and they are writing it down?

Transliteration

Am AAindahumu alghaybu fahum yaktuboona

Wahihuddin Khan

Do they possess knowledge of the unseen, so that they can write it down?

Yusuf Ali

Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down?

Arabic

أَمْ يُرِيدُونَ كَيْدًا ۖ فَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلْمَكِيدُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or do they want to stage a deception? -- Then only those who do not believe will be the ones who will be tricked.

Ali Qarai

Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones!

Amhad Khan

Or are they planning a conspiracy? So the conspiracy will befall only upon the disbelievers.

Arberry

Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted.

Corpus

Or (do) they intend a plot? But those who disbelieve, themselves (are in) the plot.

Daryabadi

Seek they to lay a plot? Then those who disbelieve it is they who shall be plotted against.

Hilali & Khan

Or do they intend a plot (against you O Muhammad SAW)? But those who disbelieve (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism) are themselves in a plot!

Maududi

Or are they contriving a stratagem against you? If so, that stratagem will rebound against the unbelievers.

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they design evil plans? The disbelievers themselves will be snared by their evil plots.

Muhammad Shakir

Or do they desire a war? But those who disbelieve shall be the vanquished ones in war.

Pickthall

Or seek they to ensnare (the messenger)? But those who disbelieve, they are the ensnared!

Qaribullah

Or, do they desire to outwit? The unbelievers are the outwitted.

Sahih Intl

Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.

Talal Itani

Or are they planning a conspiracy? The conspiracy will befall the disbelievers.

Transliteration

Am yureedoona kaydan faallatheena kafaroo humu almakeedoona

Wahihuddin Khan

Do they want to hatch some plot? Those who deny the truth will be the victims of the plot.

Yusuf Ali

Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!

Arabic

أَمْ لَهُمْ إِلَٰهٌ غَيْرُ ٱللَّهِ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ

Ahmad Ali

Or do they have a god apart from God? He is too exalted for what they associate with Him!

Ali Qarai

Do they have any god other than Allah? Clear is Allah of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]!

Amhad Khan

Or do they have a God besides Allah? Purity is to Allah from their ascribing of partners to Him.

Arberry

Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate!

Corpus

Or for them a god other than Allah? Glory be (to) Allah from what they associate (with Him).

Daryabadi

Is theirs a god beside Allah? Hallowed be Allah from that which they associate!

Hilali & Khan

Or have they an ilah (a god) other than Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partners (to Him)

Maududi

Do they have any god other than Allah? Exalted be Allah above whatever they associate (with Him in His Divinity).

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they have another god besides God? God is too exalted to be considered equal to the idols.

Muhammad Shakir

Or have they a god other than Allah? Glory be to Allah from what they set up (with Him).

Pickthall

Or have they any god beside Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!

Qaribullah

Or, do they have a god, other than Allah? Exaltations to Allah above that which they associate!

Sahih Intl

Or have they a deity other than Allah? Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate with Him.

Talal Itani

Or do they have a god besides God? God transcends what they associate.

Transliteration

Am lahum ilahun ghayru Allahi subhana Allahi AAamma yushrikoona

Wahihuddin Khan

Or have they a god other than God? Exalted be God over what they ascribe as partners [to Him]!

Yusuf Ali

Or have they a god other than Allah? Exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him!