Al-Qur'an Surah At-Tariq Verse 11

Mufti Taqi Usmani

I swear by the sky that rains,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

By the sky with its recurring cycles,

Ruwwad Translation Center

By the sky and its recurring rain,

A. J. Arberry

By heaven of the returning rain,

Abdul Haleem

By the sky and its recurring rain,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

By the heaven which returneth,

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

By the Firmament which returns (in its round),

Abul Ala Maududi

By the heaven with its recurring cycle of rain,

Ahmed Ali

So I call to witness the rain-producing sky,

Ahmed Raza Khan

By oath of the sky from which comes down the rain.

Ali Quli Qarai

By the resurgent heaven,

Ali Ünal

I swear by the heaven ever-revolving (with whatever is in it and recurring patterns of rainfall),

Amatul Rahman Omar

I call to witness the clouds that rain over and over again,

English Literal

And the sky/space that of the rain after rain/benefit .

Faridul Haque

By oath of the sky from which comes down the rain.

Hamid S. Aziz

By the Firmament which returns in its rounds,

Hilali & Khan

By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the earth opening (with herbage)!

Mohammad Habib Shakir

I swear by the raingiving heavens,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

By the heaven which giveth the returning rain,

Muhammad Sarwar

By the rotating heavens

Qaribullah & Darwish

By the sky with its returning rain,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

By the sky which gives rain, again and again.

Wahiduddin Khan

By the heavens, ever-revolving,

Talal Itani

By the sky that returns.

Tafsir jalalayn

By the heaven of returns, [of] the rain that returns time and again,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Swearing to the Truthfulness of the Qur'an and the Failure of Those Who oppose it

وَالسَّمَاء ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ




By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

Ibn Abbas said, "Ar-raj` means rain."

It has also been narrated from him that he said,

"It means the clouds that contain rain."

He also said,
وَالسَّمَأءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ
(By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

"This means that it rains and then it rains (again)."

Qatadah said,

"It returns the sustenance of the servants (creatures) every year. Were it not for this, they would all be destroyed and so would their cattle."

وَالاْاَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ