Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 55:24 | |
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Transliteration | Walahu aljawari almunshaatu fee albahri kaal-aAAlami |
Literal | And for Him (are) the ships/flowing/passing the raised/developed in the sea/ocean as/like the banners/mountains . |
Yusuf Ali | And His are the Ships sailing smoothly through the seas, lofty as mountains: |
Pickthal | His are the ships displayed upon the sea, like banners. |
Arberry | His too are the ships that run, raised up in the sea like land-marks. |
Shakir | And His are the ships reared aloft in the sea like mountains. |
Sarwar | By His command, the ships with raised masts sail on the sea like mountains. |
Khalifa | He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags. |
Hilali/Khan | And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains. |
H/K/Saheeh | And to Him belong the ships [with sails] elevated in the sea like mountains. |
Malik | His are the ships looming up like mountains on the sea.[24] |
QXP | And His are the bannered ships sailing through the sea lofty like mountains. (All creativity and invention of human beings issues forth from His gifts of mind and body. So all man-made things belong to Him). |
Maulana Ali | And His are the ships reared aloft in the sea like mountains. |
Free Minds | And to Him are the ships that roam the sea like flags. |
Qaribullah | Also, His are the ships that run, raised up like mountains upon the sea. |
George Sale | His also are the ships, carrying their sails aloft in the sea, like mountains. |
JM Rodwell | And His are the ships towering up at sea like mountains: |
Asad | And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas. [Lit., "in the sea like mountains". The reference to ships as "belonging to God" is meant to stress the God-given nature of man's intelligence and inventiveness - a reflection of God's creative powers - which expresses itself in all that man is able to produce. (See also 42:32-34 and the corresponding notes.)] |
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