Al-Qur'an Surah Ash-Shams Verse 1

Mufti Taqi Usmani

I swear by the sun and his broad light,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

By the sun and its brightness,

Ruwwad Translation Center

By the sun and its brightness,

A. J. Arberry

By the sun and his morning brightness

Abdul Haleem

By the sun in its morning brightness

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

By the sun and his morning bright-ness,

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;

Abul Ala Maududi

By the sun and its heat and brightness,

Ahmed Ali

I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour,

Ahmed Raza Khan

By oath of the sun and its light

Ali Quli Qarai

By the sun and her forenoon splendour,

Ali Ünal

By the sun and its brightness;

Amatul Rahman Omar

I call to witness the sun and its light and heat,

English Literal

And/by the sun and its sunrise/day light .

Faridul Haque

By oath of the sun and its light

Hamid S. Aziz

By the sun and its noonday brightness!

Hilali & Khan

And by the sun and its brightness;

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the moon when she borrows light from him!

Mohammad Habib Shakir

I swear by the sun and its brilliance,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

By the sun and his brightness,

Muhammad Sarwar

By the sun and its noon-time brightness,

Qaribullah & Darwish

By the sun and its midmorning,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

By the sun and Duhaha.

Wahiduddin Khan

By the sun and its rising brightness

Talal Itani

By the sun and its radiance.

Tafsir jalalayn

By the sun and her morning light,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Allah swears by His Creation that the Person Who purifies Himself will be Successful and the Person Who corrupts Himself will fail

وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا




By the sun and Duhaha.

Mujahid said, "This means, by its light."

Qatadah said,
وَضُحَـهَا
wa Duhaha. "The whole day."

Ibn Jarir said,

"The correct view is what has been said, `Allah swears by the sun and its daytime, because the clear light of the sun is daytime."'

وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا