Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Behold, We have willed that all beauty on earth be a means by which We put men to a test, [showing] which of them are best in conduct
Arthur John Arberry
We have appointed all that is on the earth for an adornment for it, and that We may try which of them is fairest in works
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
That which is on earth we have made but as a glittering show for the earth, in order that We may test them - as to which of them are best in conduct
Arabic
إِنَّا جَعَلۡنَا مَا عَلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ زِینَةࣰ لَّهَا لِنَبۡلُوَهُمۡ أَیُّهُمۡ أَحۡسَنُ عَمَلࣰا ٧
Transliteration (2021)
innā jaʿalnā mā ʿalā l-arḍi zīnatan lahā linabluwahum ayyuhum aḥsanu ʿamala