Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qamar Verse 13

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And We caused him (NūH) to board that (ship) which had planks and nails,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

We carried him on that ˹Ark made˺ of planks and nails,

Ruwwad Translation Center

We carried him on an [Ark made] of planks and nails,

A. J. Arberry

And We bore him upon a well-planked vessel well-caulked

Abdul Haleem

We carried him along on a vessel of planks and nails

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And We bare him on a thing of planks and nails.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But We bore him on an (Ark) made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fibre;

Abul Ala Maududi

And We bore Noah on the vessel built of planks and nails,

Ahmed Ali

But We bore him on a (vessel made) of planks and oakum,

Ahmed Raza Khan

And We carried Nooh upon a ship of wooden planks and nails.

Ali Quli Qarai

We bore him on a vessel made of planks and nails,

Ali Ünal

And We carried him on a (construction of) wooden planks and nails,

Amatul Rahman Omar

And We bore him (- Noah) on that (Ark which was made) of planks and nails.

English Literal

And We carried/lifted him on that of boards/sheets/planks and nails/ship ropes/dowels.

Faridul Haque

And We carried Nooh upon a ship of wooden planks and nails.

Hamid S. Aziz

And We bore him on that (the Ark) which was made of planks and nails (or ties of palm-fibre)

Hilali & Khan

And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails,

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Hastening to the Inviter. The disbelievers will say: This is a hard day!

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And We bore him on that which was made of planks and nails

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And We carried him upon a thing of planks and nails,

Muhammad Sarwar

We carried him, (Noah), on a vessel built with boards fixed together with nails,

Qaribullah & Darwish

We carried him in a well built, watertight vessel made from planks (of wood)

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails (Dusur)

Wahiduddin Khan

We bore him on an [ark] which, made of planks and nails,

Talal Itani

And We carried him on a craft of planks and nails.

Tafsir jalalayn

And We bore him, that is, Noah, on one, a ship, [made] of planks and nails (dusur is what boards are fastened down with of nails and the like; the singular is disr, similar [in pattern] to [kutub] kitb, `book'),

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails (Dusur),

Ibn Abbas, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Al-Qurazi, Qatadah and Ibn Zayd said that Dusur means nails.

Ibn Jarir preferred this view.

Allah's statement