Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 26:4 | |
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| 26:4 ان نشا ننزل عليهم من السماء اية فظلت اعناقهم لها خاضعين | |
| Transliteration | In nasha/ nunazzil AAalayhim mina alssama-i ayatan fathallat aAAnaquhum laha khadiAAeena |
| Literal | If We want We descend on them from the sky an evidence/sign , so their necks continued/became to it bending/leaning . |
| Yusuf Ali | If (such) were Our Will, We could send down to them from the sky a Sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility. |
| Pickthal | If We will, We can send down on them from the sky a portent so that their necks would remain bowed before it. |
| Arberry | If We will, We shall send down on them out of heaven a sign, so their necks will stay humbled to it. |
| Shakir | If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it. |
| Sarwar | Had We wanted, We would have sent them a miracle from the sky to make their heads hang down in submission. |
| Khalifa | If we will, we can send from the sky a sign that forces their necks to bow. |
| Hilali/Khan | If We will, We could send down to them from the heaven a sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility. |
| H/K/Saheeh | If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled. |
| Malik | If We wanted, We could send down upon them a sign from the heaven before which they would bend their necks in submission, but that is not what We want.[4] |
| QXP | Had We so Willed, We could have sent down to them a Sign from the sky, to which they would have bent their necks in humility. (But, that is not Our Design. We expect them to use their reason (12:108)). |
| Maulana Ali | If We please, We could send down on them a sign from heaven, so that their necks would bend before it. |
| Free Minds | If We wish, We could send down for them from the heavens a sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility. |
| Qaribullah | If We will, We can send down on them a sign from heaven before which their necks will remain humbled. |
| George Sale | If We pleased, We could send down unto them a convincing sign from heaven, unto which their necks would humbly submit. |
| JM Rodwell | Were it our will we could send down to them a sign from Heaven, before which they would humbly bow. |
| Asad | Had We so willed, We could have sent down unto them a message from the skies, so that their necks would [be forced to] bow down before it in humility. [Inasmuch as the spiritual value of man's faith depends on its being an outcome of free choice and not of compulsion, the visible or audible appearance of a "message from the skies" would, by its very obviousness, nullify the element of free choice and, therefore, deprive man's faith in that message of all its moral significance.] |
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