Al-Qur'an Surah Ar-Rahman Verse 11

Mufti Taqi Usmani

in which there are fruits and date palms having sheaths,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

In it are fruit, palm trees with date stalks,

Ruwwad Translation Center

in which there are fruits and palm trees with date stalks,

A. J. Arberry

therein fruits, and palm-trees with sheaths,

Abdul Haleem

with its fruits, its palm trees with sheathed clusters,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Therein are fruit and palm-trees sheathed.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Therein is fruit and date-palms, producing spathes (enclosing dates);

Abul Ala Maududi

Therein are fruit and palm-trees with their dates in sheaths,

Ahmed Ali

There are fruits of all kinds on it, and date-palms with their clusters sheathed,

Ahmed Raza Khan

In which are fruits, and covered dates.

Ali Quli Qarai

In it are fruits and date-palms with sheaths,

Ali Ünal

Therein are fruits (of various kinds), and date-palms with sheathed clusters;

Amatul Rahman Omar

In it there are all kinds of fruit and palm-trees (laden) with sheathed clusters,

English Literal

In it (are) fruits and the palm trees that of the buds/covers from which fruits and flowers emerge.

Faridul Haque

In which are fruits, and covered dates.

Hamid S. Aziz

Therein is fruit and palms having sheathed clusters,

Hilali & Khan

Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And keep up the balance with equity, nor fall short in the measure.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Therein is fruit and palms having sheathed clusters,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Wherein are fruit and sheathed palm-trees,

Muhammad Sarwar

There exists all kinds of fruits, palm-trees with sheathed blossoms,

Qaribullah & Darwish

Therein are fruits and palm trees with sheaths,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Therein are fruits, date palms producing Akmam.

Wahiduddin Khan

On it are fruits and palm-trees with sheathed clusters [of dates],

Talal Itani

In it are fruits, and palms in clusters.

Tafsir jalalayn

In it are fruits and, the familiar, date-palms with sheaths, the spathes containing its flowers,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

فِيهَا فَاكِهَةٌ

Therein are fruits, (of various colors, taste and scent),

وَالنَّخْلُ ذَاتُ الاْاَكْمَامِ



and date palms producing Akmam.

Allah mentioned the date tree here specifically because of its benefit, both fresh and dry.

Ibn Jurayj reported that Ibn Abbas said said Al-Akmam, means

"sheathed fruit stalks."

Similar was said by more than one of the scholars of Tafsir, it refers to the stalks that the seeds grow in to become a cluster of dates, unripe green dates then they ripen and ripen more.

Allah said,

وَالْحَبُّ ذُو الْعَصْفِ وَالرَّيْحَانُ