Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 40th verse of chapter 36 (sūrat yā sīn). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (36) sūrat yā sīn

Sahih International: It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.

Pickthall: It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.

Yusuf Ali: It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law).

Shakir: Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere.

Muhammad Sarwar: how the sun is not supposed to catch-up with the moon, nor is the night to precede the day. All of them are to float in a certain orbit;

Mohsin Khan: It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit.

Arberry: It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky.

Verse 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45

See Also

• Verse (36:40) Morphology - description of each Arabic word