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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 38:69 | |
| < 38:70 38:68 > |
| Transliteration | Ma kana liya min AAilmin bialmala-i al-aAAla ith yakhtasimoona |
| Literal | (There) was not from knowledge to me with the group/assembly/nobles, the highest/mightiest when they dispute/controvert/argue. |
| Yusuf Ali | "No knowledge have I of the Chiefs on high, when they discuss (matters) among themselves. |
| Pickthal | I had no knowledge of the Highest Chiefs when they disputed; |
| Arberry | I had no knowledge of the High Council when they disputed. |
| Shakir | I had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended: |
| Sarwar | I have no knowledge of the dispute among the angels (concerning their attitude towards Adam). |
| Khalifa | "I had no knowledge previously, about the feud in the High Society. |
| Hilali/Khan | "I had no knowledge of the chiefs (angels) on high when they were disputing and discussing (about the creation of Adam). |
| H/K/Saheeh | I had no knowledge of the exalted assembly [of angels] when they were disputing [the creation of Adam]. |
| Malik | Also say: "I have no knowledge of that time when the exalted chiefs disputed among themselves.[69] |
| QXP | Say! "I had no knowledge of the top leaders of the past, and of their disputations. |
| Maulana Ali | I have no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contend. |
| Free Minds | "I had no knowledge of the command up high, that they had quarrelled." |
| Qaribullah | I had no knowledge of the High Assembly's dispute. |
| George Sale | I had no knowledge of the exalted princes, when they disputed concerning the creation of man: |
| JM Rodwell | Yet had I no knowledge of what passed among the celestial chiefs when they disputed, |
| Asad | [Say, O Muhammad:] "No knowledge would I have had of [what passed among] the host on high when they argued [against the creation of man], [For the allegorical contention of the angels ("the host on high") against the creation of man, see 2:30 ff. and the corresponding notes. The allegory of man's creation, of God's command to the angels to "prostrate themselves" before the new creature, and of Iblis' refusal to do so appears in the Quran six times (2:30-34, 7:11 ff., 15:28-44, 17:61-65, 18:50, and 38:69-85), each time with an accent on a different aspect of this allegory. In the present instance (which is undoubtedly the earliest in the chronology of revelation) it is connected with the statement, in 2:31, that God "imparted unto Adam the names of all things", i.e., endowed man with the faculty of conceptual thinking (see note on 2:31) and, thus, with the ability to discern between what is true and what false. Since he possesses this faculty, man has no excuse for not realizing God's existence and oneness - the "message tremendous" referred to in the preceding passage.] |
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