Ayah as-Saffat (Those Who Set The Ranks, Drawn up in Ranks, The Rangers) 37:88

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Muhammad Asad

Then he cast a glance at the stars

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So he looked a look (i.e., gazed at the stars) at the stars

Safi Kaskas

Then he took a look at the stars

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Arabic

فَنَظَرَ نَظۡرَةࣰ فِی ٱلنُّجُومِ ۝٨٨

Transliteration (2021)

fanaẓara naẓratan fī l-nujūm

Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Then he glanced a glance at the stars,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

Then he cast a glance at the stars

M. M. Pickthall

And he glanced a glance at the star

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Then did he cast a glance at the Stars

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

He later looked up to the stars ˹in contemplation˺,

Safi Kaskas

Then he took a look at the stars

Wahiduddin Khan

He looked up at the stars

Shakir

Then he looked at the stars, looking up once

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And he looked on them with a glimpse at the stars

T.B.Irving

So he took a glance at the stars

Abdul Hye

Then he looked a glance at the stars,

The Study Quran

Then he cast a glance at the star

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

He then gazed at the stars.

Talal Itani (2012)

Then he took a glance at the stars

Dr. Kamal Omar

Then he cast a glance at the stars

M. Farook Malik

Then he looked at the stars one tim

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So he looked a look (i.e., gazed at the stars) at the stars

Muhammad Sarwar

The people invited him to attend their feast). Then he looked at the star

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Then, he cast a look at the stars

Shabbir Ahmed

And he glanced at the stars. (6:76-78)

Dr. Munir Munshey

Then he (rolled his eyes and) cast a sweeping glance at the stars

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then he took a look at the stars

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And he cast a look at the star

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

Then he looked towards the stars.

Abdel Haleem

then he looked up to the stars

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then he glanced a glance on the stars

Ahmed Ali

Then he looked up at the stars (they worshipped)

Aisha Bewley

He took a look at the stars

Ali Ünal

Then (when invited to participate in the religious ceremonies of the people on a festival day) he cast a glance at the stars

Ali Quli Qara'i

Then he made an observation of the star

Hamid S. Aziz

Then he looked at the stars, looking up once

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

Then he looked a glance at the stars.

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Then he cast a glance at the stars

Musharraf Hussain

He looked at the stars

Maududi

Then he looked carefully at the star

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Then he looked towards the stars.

Mohammad Shafi

He then cast a glance at the stars

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then he cast a glance at the stars.

Rashad Khalifa

He looked carefully at the stars.

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

He cast a glance at the star

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Then he glanced a glance at the stars

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

So he looked/saw a glance/consideration in the stars/planets

Bijan Moeinian

[As he could not get any convincing answer,] Abraham concentrated his attention toward the stars [to find what he was missing]

Faridul Haque

He then shot a glance at the stars

Sher Ali

Then he cast a glance at the stars

Edip Yuksel

Then he looked towards the stars.

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then Ibrahim (Abraham) cast a look at the stars (to put them in doubt)

Amatul Rahman Omar

Then he cast a glance at the stars (intimating that their discussion has dragged far into the night)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Then he cast a glance at the stars (to deceive them)

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

And he cast a glance at the stars

George Sale

And he looked and observed the stars

Edward Henry Palmer

And he looked a look at the star

John Medows Rodwell

So gazing he gazed towards the stars

N J Dawood (2014)

He lifted up his eyes to the star

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Saeed Malik

So, he turned his sight into the [infinitude of the] stars

Shuaib Abdullahi

So (Fa) he (Abraham) took a look (Nazara Naz'ratan) at (Fii) the stars (En'Nujuum),

Fode Drame

Then he took a look into the stars.

Munir Mezyed

Then he took a glance at the stars,

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Then he took a look at the stars.

Linda “iLHam” Barto

He glanced at the stars.

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

Then he took one look at the stars

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

So he took a glance at the stars

Samy Mahdy

So, he glanced a glance into the stars

Ali Quli Qarai

Then he made an observation of the stars

Sayyid Qutb

Then he cast a glance at the stars,

Ahmed Hulusi

Then (Abraham) observed the stars (through his intellect) and contemplated...

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Then he cast a glance at the stars,

A. S. Mohamed

He took a look at the stars,

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

Then he glanced, casting glance at the stars,

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

He took a look and directed his attention to the stars

Mir Aneesuddin

Then he looked (with a searching) look at the stars (probably because his people worshipped the stars too and)

The Wise Quran

And he looked, a glance at the stars,

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Then did he cast a glance at the Stars

OLD Literal Word for Word

Then he glanced a glance at the stars

OLD Transliteration

Fanathara nathratan fee alnnujoomi

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