Ayah at-Tur (The Mount, The Mountain) 52:41

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Muhammad Asad

Or [do they think] that the hidden reality [of all that exists] is almost within their grasp, so that [in time] they can write it down

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Or do they have access to ˹the Record in˺ the unseen, so they copy it ˹for all to see˺?

Safi Kaskas

Or if they know the future, so they write [it] down?

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أَمۡ عِندَهُمُ ٱلۡغَیۡبُ فَهُمۡ یَكۡتُبُونَ ۝٤١

Transliteration (2021)

am ʿindahumu l-ghaybu fahum yaktubūn

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

Or with them (is) the unseen, so they write (it) down?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

Or [do they think] that the hidden reality [of all that exists] is almost within their grasp, so that [in time] they can write it down

M. M. Pickthall

Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write (it) down

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Or do they have access to ˹the Record in˺ the unseen, so they copy it ˹for all to see˺?

Safi Kaskas

Or if they know the future, so they write [it] down?

Wahiduddin Khan

Do they possess knowledge of the unseen, so that they can write it down

Shakir

Or have they the unseen so that they write (it) down

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Or is the unseen with them and they write it down?

T.B.Irving

Do they have the Unseen which they are writing down?

Abdul Hye

Or is the (knowledge of) unseen with them and they write it down?

The Study Quran

Or do they possess the Unseen, such that they write it down

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Or do they possess the Unseen, and they are writing it down?

Talal Itani (2012)

Or do they know the future, and they are writing it down

Dr. Kamal Omar

Or, with them (under their surveilance is) Al-ghaib (the unseen), so they record it down

M. Farook Malik

Do they have the knowledge of the unseen? Can they write it down

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Or even do they have in their presence the Unseen, (and) so they are writing (it) down

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they have knowledge of the unseen, thus, are able to predict (the future)

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Or have they the knowledge of the Unseen, and they are recording it

Shabbir Ahmed

Or do they know the future so that they have it written down

Dr. Munir Munshey

Or, do they have (an access to) the unseen, and are they writing it down

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Or that the Unseen is in their hands, and they write it (the Suras) down

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

Or do they know the future, thus they have it recorde

Abdel Haleem

Do they have [access to] the unseen? Could they write it down

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Is with them the Unseen, and they write it down

Ahmed Ali

Or do they have knowledge of the Unknown which they write down

Aisha Bewley

Or is the Unseen in their hands so they can write out what is to happen?

Ali Ünal

Or do they have the knowledge of the Unseen (and the Supreme Preserved Tablet) so that they write down the decrees (determining all events, and stipulating a way of life for others to follow)

Ali Quli Qara'i

Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down

Hamid S. Aziz

Or have they the unseen so that they write it down

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

Or is the unseen with them, and they write it?

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Or is the unknown in their hands, and they write it down

Musharraf Hussain

Or do they have the knowledge of the unseen they write down?

Maududi

Or is it that they have access to (the Truths in) the realm beyond sense-perception which they are writing down

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Or do they know the future, thus they have it recorded?

Mohammad Shafi

Or, have they the knowledge of the Unseen, which they have written down?

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Or they have unseen with them by which they give command.

Rashad Khalifa

Do they know the future, and have it recorded?

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Or, is the Unseen in their keeping, so they are writing it down

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Or possess they the unseen, so they write (it) down

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

Or at them (is) the unseen/absent so they write/dictate

Bijan Moeinian

Do they have the knowledge of the unseen realities that they flatly refuse it

Faridul Haque

Or is the hidden with them, by which they pass judgements

Sher Ali

Do they possess knowledge of the unseen, so that they write it down

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Do they have (the knowledge of) the unseen that they write down

Amatul Rahman Omar

Do they have (the knowledge of) the unseen so that they write down (and judge things in its light)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Or that the Ghaib (unseen) is with them, and they write it down

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down

George Sale

Are the secrets of futurity with them; and do they transcribe the same from the table of God's decrees

Edward Henry Palmer

Or have they the unseen, so that they write it down

John Medows Rodwell

Have they such a knowledge of the secret things that they can write them down

N J Dawood (2014)

Or have they knowledge of what is hidden? Can they write it down

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Fode Drame

Or is it that the unseen is with them so that they write?

Munir Mezyed

Or do they have (the knowledge of ) the unseen and so they write it down?

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Or do they have access to the unseen so they write it down?

Linda “iLHam” Barto

Is the unseen with them so that they can write it?

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

Or do they have (knowledge of) the hidden realm and they are writing it down?

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

Do they have the Unseen which they are writing down?

Samy Mahdy

Or with them, the unseen so they are, writing?

Ahmed Hulusi

Or do they have (knowledge of) the unknown; is it them who determines (what is to transpire)?

Mir Aneesuddin

Or is (the knowledge of) the unseen with them that they write (it) down?

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

Or do they realize the unseen or have knowledge of the invisible not apprehended by sight, and they commit it to writing

The Wise Quran

Or with them is the unseen, so they write.

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down

OLD Literal Word for Word

Or with them (is) the unseen, so they write (it) down

OLD Transliteration

Am AAindahumu alghaybu fahum yaktuboona

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