Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Inshiqaq Verse 17

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and by the night and what it envelops,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And by the night and whatever it envelops!

Ruwwad Translation Center

and by the night and what it covers,

A. J. Arberry

and the night and what it envelops

Abdul Haleem

by the night and what it covers,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And by the night and that which it driveth together,

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The Night and its Homing;

Abul Ala Maududi

and by the night and what it enfolds,

Ahmed Ali

And the night and all it gathers,

Ahmed Raza Khan

And by oath of the night and all that gathers in it.

Ali Quli Qarai

by the night and what it is fraught with,

Ali Ünal

And the night, and all that it enshrouds (by degrees),

Amatul Rahman Omar

And the night and (all) that it envelopes,

English Literal

And the night, and what carried/gathered/loaded.

Faridul Haque

And by oath of the night and all that gathers in it.

Hamid S. Aziz

Or the night, and its homing,

Hilali & Khan

And by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness;

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the moon when it grows full,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And the night and that which it drives on,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And by the night and all that it enshroudeth,

Muhammad Sarwar

or by the night in which things all come together to rest,

Qaribullah & Darwish

by the night and all that it envelops;

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And the night and what it Wasaqa,

Wahiduddin Khan

by the night and what it covers,

Talal Itani

And by the night, and what it covers.

Tafsir jalalayn

and [by] the night and what it envelops, [what] it brings together of creatures and otherwise that have entered into it,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And by the night and what it Wasaqa,

Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, Al-Hasan and Qatadah, all said that,
وَمَا وَسَقَ
and what it Wasaqa means,

"What it gathers."

Qatadah said, "The stars and animals it gathers."

Ikrimah said,

"What it drives into due to its darkness, because when it is nighttime everything goes to its home."

Concerning Allah's statement,

وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا اتَّسَقَ