Qaf

Have they not then looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it ˹with stars˺, leaving it flawless?

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?

— Saheeh International

As for the earth, We spread it out and placed upon it firm mountains, and produced in it every type of pleasant plant—

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And the earth - We spread it out and cast therein firmly set mountains and made grow therein [something] of every beautiful kind,

— Saheeh International

˹all as˺ an insight and a reminder to every servant who turns ˹to Allah˺.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allah].

— Saheeh International

And We send down blessed rain from the sky, bringing forth gardens and grains for harvest,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest

— Saheeh International

and towering palm trees ˹loaded˺ with clustered fruit,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -

— Saheeh International

˹as˺ a provision for ˹Our˺ servants. And with this ˹rain˺ We revive a lifeless land. Similar is the emergence ˹from the graves˺.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

As provision for the servants, and We have given life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the emergence [i.e., resurrection].

— Saheeh International

Before them, the people of Noah denied ˹the truth,˺ as did the people of the Water-pit,¹ Thamûd,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

The people of Noah denied before them,¹ and the companions of the well² and Thamūd

— Saheeh International

’Ȃd, Pharaoh, the kinfolk of Lot,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And ʿAad and Pharaoh and the brothers [i.e., people] of Lot

— Saheeh International

the residents of the Forest,¹ and the people of Tubba’.² Each rejected ˹their˺ messenger, so My warning was fulfilled.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And the companions of the thicket and the people of Tubbaʿ. All denied the messengers, so My threat was justly fulfilled.

— Saheeh International

Were We incapable of creating ˹them˺ the first time? In fact, they are in doubt about ˹their˺ re-creation.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.

— Saheeh International

Indeed, ˹it is˺ We ˹Who˺ created humankind and ˹fully˺ know what their souls whisper to them, and We are closer to them than ˹their˺ jugular vein.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer¹ to him than [his] jugular vein.

— Saheeh International