Ayah al-Qalam (The Pen) 68:47

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Muhammad Asad

Or [do they think] that the hidden reality [of all that exists] is 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 do they know the future, and they write what is going to happen?

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أَمۡ عِندَهُمُ ٱلۡغَیۡبُ فَهُمۡ یَكۡتُبُونَ ۝٤٧

Transliteration (2021)

am ʿindahumu l-ghaybu fahum yaktubūn

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

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

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

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

M. M. Pickthall

Or is the Unseen theirs that they can write (thereof)

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Or that the Unseen is in their hands, so that 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 do they know the future, and they write what is going to happen?

Wahiduddin Khan

Is the unseen within their grasp so that they write it down

Shakir

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Or have they knowledge of the unseen with them so that they write it down?

T.B.Irving

Or do they hold the Unseen which they are writing down?

Abdul Hye

Or do they have the (knowledge of the) unseen with them, so they can 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 have knowledge of the unseen, so they write it down?

Talal Itani (2012)

Or do they know the future, and so they write it down

Dr. Kamal Omar

Or with them is al-ghaib [‘the unseen’ (source of the Divine Knowledge)] so they write down (with their own hands ‘religious verdicts’, and giving them the title of hadees, associate them to Allah and the Prophet)

M. Farook Malik

Or do they have the knowledge of the unseen and they are writing it down

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Or even is the Unseen in their presence so they are writing (it down)

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they possess the knowledge of the unseen which confirms the truthfulness of their belief

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Or do they have the (knowledge of the) Unseen, and they write it down

Shabbir Ahmed

Or is it that theirs is the future that they have written down

Dr. Munir Munshey

Or, do they have the knowledge of the unseen so they may write (their own fate)

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Or that the unseen (Ghaib) is in their hands, so that they can write it 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 So they have it recorde

Abdel Haleem

Do they have knowledge of the unseen that enables them to write it down

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Is with them the unseen, so that they write down

Ahmed Ali

Or do they have knowledge of the unknown which they copy down

Aisha Bewley

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

Ali Ünal

Or is the Unseen within their reach that they write down (prescribing and stipulating what is to come, and how they are to be judged)

Ali Quli Qara'i

Do they possess [access to] the Unseen so that they write it down

Hamid S. Aziz

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

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

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

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Or that the unknown is in their hands, so that they can write it down

Musharraf Hussain

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

Maududi

Or do they have any knowledge of the Unseen which they are now writing down

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Or do they know the future? So they have it recorded?

Mohammad Shafi

Or, do they possess the knowledge of the unseen which they write down

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Or is the unseen with them so that they are writing?

Rashad Khalifa

Do they know the future? Do they have it recorded?

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Or, is the Unseen with them, and they are writing it down

Maulana Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

Or at them (is) the unseen/absent/(future) , so they are writing/dictating/ordering

Bijan Moeinian

Mohammad, do they have any knowledge of unseen that they accuse you of being a fraud

Faridul Haque

Or that they possess the hidden, so they are writing it

Sher Ali

Have they the 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 (their judgments on the basis of that)

Amatul Rahman Omar

Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen so that they write it down (to judge things in its light)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Or that the Ghaib (unseen here in this Verse it means Al-Lauh Al-Mahfooz) is in their hands, so that they can 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 knowledge of the unseen, so that they write

John Medows Rodwell

Are the secret things within their ken? Do they copy them from the Book of God

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 in their disposition so that they can write?

Munir Mezyed

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

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

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

Linda “iLHam” Barto

Or is the unseen [Word] in their own hands, so that they can write it themselves?

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

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

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

Or do they hold the Unseen which they are writing down?

Samy Mahdy

Or do they have the unseen, so they are writing?

Ahmed Hulusi

Or do they have (knowledge of) the unknown (the unperceivable) which they write?

Mir Aneesuddin

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

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

Or do they, of all people, apprehend and comprehend what is by nature not an object of 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 is in their hands, so that they can write it down

OLD Literal Word for Word

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

OLD Transliteration

Am AAindahumu alghaybu fahum yaktuboona

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