Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 52:24 | |
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Transliteration | Wayatoofu AAalayhim ghilmanun lahum kaannahum lu/luon maknoonun |
Literal | And servants/boys for them, circle/walk around on them, as if they are protected/covered pearls. |
Yusuf Ali | Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded. |
Pickthal | And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden pearls. |
Arberry | and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls. |
Shakir | And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls. |
Sarwar | They will be served by youths who will be as beautiful as pearls. |
Khalifa | Serving them will be servants like protected pearls. |
Hilali/Khan | And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve them as if they were preserved pearls. |
H/K/Saheeh | There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected. |
Malik | and there shall wait for them young boys, exclusively appointed for their service, who will be as handsome as treasured pearls.[24] |
QXP | And their children like pearls, playful, happy around them. (13:23), (52:21), (59:17)). |
Maulana Ali | And round them go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls. |
Free Minds | And around them will be children like protected pearls. |
Qaribullah | and youths, of their own, shall pass among them as if they were hidden pearls. |
George Sale | And youths appointed to attend them, shall go round them: Beautiful as pearls hidden in their shell. |
JM Rodwell | And youths shall go round among them beautiful as imbedded pearls: |
Asad | And they will be waited upon by [immortal] youths, [See note on 56:17-18.] [as if they were children] of their own, [as pure] as if they were pearls hidden in their shells. [Thus Razi, explaining the selfless devotion implied in the pronoun lahum (lit., "for them", i.e., "of their own").] |
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