Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
He knows all that enters the earth, and all that comes out of it, as well as all that descends from the skies, and all that ascends to them. And He alone is a dispenser of grace, truly-forgiving
M. M. Pickthall
He knoweth that which goeth into the earth and that which cometh forth from it, and that descendeth from the heaven and that which ascendeth into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He knows all that goes into the earth, and all that comes out thereof; all that comes down from the sky and all that ascends thereto and He is the Most Merciful, the Oft-Forgiving
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
He knows whatever goes into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and whatever descends from the sky and whatever ascends into it. And He is the Most Merciful, All-Forgiving.
Safi Kaskas
He knows what goes into the Earth and what comes out of it, and what comes down from heaven and what goes up into it. He is the Mercy-Giver, the Forgiving.
Wahiduddin Khan
He knows whatever goes into the earth and whatever comes forth from it, and whatever descends from heaven and whatever ascends into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Shakir
He knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes out of it, and that which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up to it; and He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
He knows whatever penetrates into the earth and what goes forth out of it and what comes down from the heaven and what goes up to it. And He is The Compassionate, The Forgiving.
T.B.Irving
He knows what penetrates the earth and what issues from it, and what falls down from the sky and what soars up into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
Abdul Hye
He knows that which goes into the earth and that which comes out from it, and that which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up to it. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
The Study Quran
He knows that which enters the earth and that which issues therefrom, that which descends from Heaven and that which ascends thereto. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
He knows what penetrates the earth and what emerges from it, what descends from the sky, and what ascends to it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
Talal Itani (2012)
He knows what penetrates into the earth, and what comes out of it, and what descends from the sky, and what ascends to it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Dr. Kamal Omar
He knows what enters the earth and what comes out of it, and that what descends from towards the sky and whatever ascends therein. And He is the continuously Merciful, the Oft-Forgiving
He has the knowledge of all that goes into the earth and that which comes out of it; and all that comes down from heaven and that ascends to it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
He knows whatever penetrates into the earth and whatever goes out of it, and whatever comes down from the heaven, and whatever ascends with difficulty into it; and He is The Ever-Merciful, The Ever-Forgiving
Muhammad Sarwar
He knows all that enters the earth, all that comes out of it, all that descends from the sky and all that ascends to it. He is All-merciful and All-forgiving
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
He knows all that goes into the earth and all that comes out from it, and all that comes down from the sky and all that ascends thereto. He is the Very-Merciful, the Most-Forgiving
Shabbir Ahmed
He knows all that enters the earth, and all that comes out of it, and that which descends from the high atmosphere and that which ascends to it. And He is Merciful, Forgiving. (He nourishes the entire Cosmos and absolves imperfections)
Dr. Munir Munshey
He knows everything that sinks into the earth, and everything that emerges from it, that which descends from the sky, and that which ascends into it. He is the most Merciful and the most Forgiving
Syed Vickar Ahamed
He knows (all) that which goes into the earth, and (all) that which comes out from it; (All) that which comes down from the heaven, and (all) that which rises to it; And He is the Most Merciful (Ar-Raheem), the Often Forgiving (Al-Ghafoor)
He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
He knows what goes into the Earth, and what comes out of it, and what comes down from the sky, and what climbs into it. He is the Merciful, Forgiver
Abdel Haleem
He knows all that goes into the earth and all that comes out of it; He knows all that comes down from the heavens and all that goes up to them. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
He knoweth whatsoever penetrateth into the earth and whatsoever cometh forth therefrom and whatsoever descendeth from the heaven and whatsoever ascendeth thereto. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Ahmed Ali
He knows whatever goes into the earth and whatsoever issues from it, whatsoever comes down from the sky, and whatsoever goes up to it. He is all-merciful, all-forgiving
Aisha Bewley
He knows what goes into the earth and what comes out of it, and what comes down from heaven and what goes up into it. And He is the Most Merciful, the Ever-Forgiving.
Ali Ünal
He knows whatever enters into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and whatever descends from the heaven and whatever ascends to it. He is the All-Compassionate, the All-Forgiving
Ali Quli Qara'i
He knows whatever enters into the earth and whatever emerges from it, and whatever descends from the sky and whatever ascends into it, and He is the All-merciful, the All-forgiving
Hamid S. Aziz
He knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes out of it, and that which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up to it; and He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
He knows what goes into the earth and what comes out of it, and what comes down from the sky and what goes up to it, and He is the merciful, the forgiving.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
He knows all that goes into the earth, and all that comes out of it, all that comes down from the sky and all that ascends to it, and He is the Merciful Redeemer, the Oft-Forgiving
Musharraf Hussain
He knows what goes inside the Earth and what comes out of it, and what comes down from the sky and what goes up. He is the Caring, the Forgiving.
Maududi
He knows what penetrates into the earth and what goes forth from it, what descends from the heaven and what ascends to it. He is the Most Merciful, the Most Forgiving
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
He knows what goes into the earth, and what comes out of it, and what comes down from the heaven, and what ascends into it. He is the Merciful, Forgiver.
Mohammad Shafi
He knows what goes down into the earth and what comes out of it, and what comes down from the heavens and what goes up there. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
He knows what goes into the earth and what comes forth from it, and what descends from the heaven and what ascends into it. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
He knows everything that goes into the earth, and everything that comes out of it, and everything that comes down from the sky, and everything that climbs into it. He is the Most Merciful, the Forgiving.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
He knows all that penetrates the earth and all that comes forth from it, all that comes down from heaven and all that ascends to it. He is the Most Merciful, the Forgiver
Maulana Muhammad Ali
He knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes out of it, and that which comes down from heaven and that which goes up to it. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
He knows what enters/penetrates in the earth/Planet Earth, and what appears/emerges from it, and what descends from the sky/space, and what ascends/zigzags in it, and He is the most merciful, the forgiving
Bijan Moeinian
God has absolute knowledge about whatever that hides itself in the depth of the earth and whatever that comes out of the earth. God also knows whatever that descends from the sky and whatever that ascends toward the heavens. Lord is the Most Forgiving and gracefully covers the sins
Faridul Haque
He knows all that goes into the earth and all that comes out of it, and all that descends from the skies and all that ascends into it; and only He is the Most Merciful, the Oft Forgiving
Sher Ali
He knows whatever goes into the earth and whatever comes forth from it, and whatever descends from the heaven and whatever ascends into it; and HE is Merciful, Most Forgiving
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
He knows (all) the things that go into the earth and that come out from it and those that descend from heaven and that ascend to it. And He is Ever-Merciful, Most Forgiving
Amatul Rahman Omar
He (- God the Almighty) knows all that goes into the earth and all that comes forth from it, and all that comes down from the heaven and all that goes up to it. And He is the Ever Merciful, the Great Protector
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
He knows that which goes into the earth and that which comes forth from it, and that which descend from the heaven and that which ascends to it. And He is the Most Merciful, the OftForgiving
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
He knows all that enters in the earth and all that comes forth from it and all that descends from the heaven and all that ascends therein and it is He who is The Most Merciful, the Oft-Forgiving.
Munir Mezyed
He has full knowledge of whatever goes down into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and whatever comes down from the sky and whatever ascends to it. He is the Most Merciful, the Oft-Forgiving.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
He knows what enters the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the sky and what ascends through it, and He is merciful and forgiving.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
He knows what penetrates into the earth and what comes out of it, and what descends from the sky and what ascends to it, and He is the Bestower of mercy, the Oft-Forgiving.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
He knows all that enters the earth and all that comes from it, all that descends from the sky and all that ascends to it. He is the Most Merciful, the Most Forgiving.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
He knows what penetrates the earth and what issues from it, and what falls down from the sky and what soars up into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
Samy Mahdy
He knows what logs into the earth, and what exits out of it, and what descends from the sky, and what ascends serpentinely into it. And He is Al-Raheem (The merciful to his creation and himself), Al-Ghafor (The Forgiving).
Sayyid Qutb
He knows all that goes into the earth and all that comes out of it; all that descends from the skies and all that ascends to them. He is the Merciful, the truly Forgiving.
Thomas Cleary
God knows what goes into the earth, and what comes out of it, and what descends from the sky, and what ascends to it. And God is most merciful, most forgiving.
Ahmed Hulusi
He knows whatever goes into the earth (the body) and whatever comes forth from it; and whatever is disclosed from heaven (consciousness) and whatever (dimensionally) ascends to it... HU is the Rahim, the Ghafur.
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
He knows whatever goes down into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and whatever comes down from the heaven and whatever goes up to it; and He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
He has omniscience of all that makes entry and penetrates into the earth, be it animate or inanimate, and of all that arises from it and of what erupts from within and of the water streaming out of it. And He has Omniscience of all that comes down from the realm of heaven and from the vault of its floor and of all that ascends of deeds and of the souls of those who have done the deeds. He is also 'Alimun (Omniscient) of the spiritual and the animate and of all that is inanimate and He is AL-Rahim (the Merciful) and AL-Ghafur (the forgiving.
Mir Aneesuddin
He knows that which enters into the earth and that which comes out of it and that which comes down from the sky and that which goes up into it, and He is the Merciful, the Protectively Forgiving.
The Wise Quran
He knows what enters into the earth, and what comes forth from it, and what descends from the sky, and what ascends into it; and He is the Compassionate, the Forgiving.