Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you]
M. M. Pickthall
Have We not made the earth an expanse
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Have We not smoothed out the earth ˹like a bed˺,
Safi Kaskas
Have We not made the Earth a cradle?
Wahiduddin Khan
Have We not spread the earth like a bed
Shakir
Have We not made the earth an even expanse
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Make We not the earth for a cradling
T.B.Irving
Have We not laid the earth out as a cradle
Abdul Hye
Have not We made the earth like a bed,
The Study Quran
Did We not make the earth a resting place
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Didn’t We make the earth a cradle?
Talal Itani (2012)
Did We not make the earth a cradle
Dr. Kamal Omar
Have We not made the earth as a bed and abode
Is it not true that We have spread the earth like a bed
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Have We not made the earth as a cradling, (Or: level lands)
Muhammad Sarwar
Have We not made the earth as a place to res
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Did We not make the earth a floor
Shabbir Ahmed
Did We not make the earth a cradle for you
Dr. Munir Munshey
Have We not laid out the earth as a cradle
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse (as a bed)
Have We not made the earth a resting place
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Did We not make the Earth a resting groun
Abdel Haleem
Did We not make the earth smooth
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Have We not made the earth an expanse
Ahmed Ali
Did We not make the earth a spreading
Aisha Bewley
Have We not made the earth a flat carpet
Ali Ünal
Have We not made the earth as a cradle
Ali Quli Qara'i
Did We not make the earth a resting place
Hamid S. Aziz
Have We not made the earth an expanse
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Did We not make the earth a resting place,
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse
Musharraf Hussain
Didn’t We make the Earth a vast expanse,
Maududi
Have We not spread the earth like a bed
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Did We not make the earth a resting ground?
Mohammad Shafi
Have We not made the earth specially prepred [for sustenance of life]
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Have We not made the earth a bed,
Did we not make the earth habitable
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Have We not made the earth as a cradl
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Have We not made the earth an expans
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
Did We not make the earth/Planet Earth prepared/spread
Bijan Moeinian
The same God which made the earth habitable
Faridul Haque
Did We not make the earth a bed
Sher Ali
Have WE not made the earth as a bed
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Have We not made the earth a place to stay for (life) and to earn living and deeds
Amatul Rahman Omar
Have We not made the earth as a bed
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Have We not made the earth as a bed
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
Have We not made the earth a cradle?
Munir Mezyed
Have We not made the earth as a cradle
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Did We not make the earth an abode,
Linda “iLHam” Barto
Have We not made the earth a wide expanse?
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
Did We not make the earth a resting place,
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Have We not laid the earth out as a cradle
Samy Mahdy
Did We not set up the earth as bedding?
Sayyid Qutb
Have We not spread and levelled the earth,
Ahmed Hulusi
Did We not make the earth (the body) a cradle (a temporary place in which you can grow and develop yourselves)?
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
Have We not made the earth easy and wid
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Have We not made the earth as a (wide) expanse
Did We not prepare the earth to be a settled habitation
Mir Aneesuddin
Did We not make the earth habitable
The Wise Quran
Did We not make the earth a bed,