Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Whenever We will anything to be, We but say unto it Our word "Be" -and it is
Arthur John Arberry
The only words We say to a thing, when We desire it, is that We say to it 'Be,' and it is
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
For to anything which We have willed, We but say the word, "Be", and it is
Arabic
إِنَّمَا قَوۡلُنَا لِشَیۡءٍ إِذَاۤ أَرَدۡنَـٰهُ أَن نَّقُولَ لَهُۥ كُن فَیَكُونُ ٤٠
Transliteration (2021)
innamā qawlunā lishayin idhā aradnāhu an naqūla lahu kun fayakūn