Ayah al-A`la (The Most High, Glory to your Lord in the Highest) 87:5

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Muhammad Asad

and thereupon causes it to decay into rust-brown stubble

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

then reduces it to withered chaff.

Safi Kaskas

and then made it black stubble.

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فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

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then makes it dark-colored stubble (i.e., pasture into dried and lifeless hay)

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And then makes it stubble, dark.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

and thereupon causes it to decay into rust-brown stubble

M. M. Pickthall

Then turneth it to russet stubble

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

And then doth make it (but) swarthy stubble

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

then reduces it to withered chaff.

Safi Kaskas

and then made it black stubble.

Wahiduddin Khan

then turns it into black stubble

Shakir

Then makes it dried up, dust-colored

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

then, made it dark colored refuse.

T.B.Irving

then turns it into weather-beaten stubble.

Abdul Hye

then makes it dark rubbish.

The Study Quran

then made it as blackened stubble

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Then makes it scattered stubble.

Talal Itani (2012)

And then turns it into light debris.

Dr. Kamal Omar

(and) then made it dried and lifeless, brownish black (wet and decomposed)

M. Farook Malik

then reduces it to black rubbish

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Then He made it a dark (Or: stubble including all pasturage) stubble

Muhammad Sarwar

then caused it to wither away

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

then turned it into a blackening stubble

Shabbir Ahmed

And then turns it into rust-brown residue. (18:45)

Dr. Munir Munshey

Then turns it into the decaying scum

Syed Vickar Ahamed

And then makes it dry and stalky (with grain)

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And [then] makes it black stubble

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

So He made it dry-up into hay

Abdel Haleem

then made it dark debris

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then maketh it to stubble dusky

Ahmed Ali

Then reduces them to rusty rubbish

Aisha Bewley

then makes it blackened stubble.

Ali Ünal

Then turns it to dark-colored, rotten stubble

Ali Quli Qara'i

then turned it into a black scum

Hamid S. Aziz

Then turns it to dusky stubble

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

then He made it dried-up and black.

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

And then makes it dark stubble

Musharraf Hussain

then turned it into dry dusty debris

Maududi

and then made it into a blackish straw

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

SoHe made it dry-up into hay.

Mohammad Shafi

And then made it into dark rubble

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then turned it dry black.

Rashad Khalifa

Then turns it into light hay

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

then made it dry dark, flaky stubble

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Then makes it dried up, dust-coloured

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

So He made/created it rotten/spoiled (thin and dry) green/red with blackness

Bijan Moeinian

… colonize the earth with plants and then transfers it into a bunch of hay

Faridul Haque

Then made it dry and dark

Sher Ali

Then turns it into black stubble

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

And then made it blackened stubble

Amatul Rahman Omar

And then turns it into dried up rubbish, gray coloured

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

And then makes it dark stubble

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

then made it a blackening wrack

George Sale

and afterwards rendereth the same dry stubble of a dusky hue

Edward Henry Palmer

and then makes it dusky stubble

John Medows Rodwell

And reduceth it to dusky stubble

N J Dawood (2014)

then turns it to withered grass

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Fode Drame

and then He turns it into stubble decomposed and dark.

Munir Mezyed

And then turns it into dark stubble.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Then makes it darkened chaff.

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

then turned it into dark debris.

Linda “iLHam” Barto

And He makes it ruined stubble.

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

then turns it into weather-beaten stubble.

Samy Mahdy

So He set it black scum.

Sayyid Qutb

then turns it to withered grass.

Thomas Cleary

and turned it into brown straw.

Ahmed Hulusi

Then made it black stubble (corpses to be cast into the earth).

Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)

"and then turns it into dried, brown straw."

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

Then makes it dried up; dust-coloure

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

Then He makes it decay and causes its degeneration

Mir Aneesuddin

then made it dust coloured rubbish.

The Wise Quran

Then made it black rubbish borne by a torrent.

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

And then doth make it (but) swarthy stubble

OLD Literal Word for Word

And then makes it stubble, dark

OLD Transliteration

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

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