Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | “Will you, in your wanton folly, build [idolatrous] altars on every height |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Build ye on every high place a monument for vain delight | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | "Do ye build a landmark on every high place to amuse yourselves | |
Shakir | | Do you build on every height a monument? Vain is it that you do | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Do you build monuments on every high place in vanity | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Build you a sign on every high hill to amuse? | |
| T.B.Irving | | "Are you building a sign on every hill just so you may fool around? | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | ˹Why˺ do you build a landmark on every high place in vanity, | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Do you build a tower on every hill just to amuse yourselves, | |
| Abdul Hye | | Do you build landmark on every high palace to play for fun? | |
| The Study Quran | | Do you frivolously build on every high place a sign | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | "Do you build on every high place a symbol, for the sake of vanity!" | |
Abdel Haleem | | How can you be so vain that you set up monuments on every high place | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Build ye on every eminence a landmark in vanity | |
Ahmed Ali | | You construct monuments on every hill in vain | |
Aisha Bewley | | Do you build a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves, | |
Ali Ünal | | "Will you continue to build on every high spot monumental buildings for fun and show | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | Do you futilely build a sign on every prominence | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | "Do you build on every height a monument of vain delight | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Do you build on every prominence a sign, sporting? (i.e., huge prominence inspiring fear | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | "Do you build useless monuments on every mountai | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | Do you erect on every height a monument, having no sound purpose | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | You build on every height monuments of vanity | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | "Do you build an important place on every high place to bring joy to yourselves | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves | |
Farook Malik | | Are you erecting a monument on every high place for fun | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | "At every raised spot you construct high palaces in vain, and to no avail." | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Do you build on every prominent place a monument? You act uselessly (seehead of state vain glory) | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Do you build a monument on every height for vanity's sake | |
Maududi | | What, you build a monument on every hill merely for fu | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | Do you build a sign on every high place to fool around | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | “Do you build a landmark on every high place to amuse yourselves | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | You build monuments on every hilltop to please yourselves, | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | "Do you build on every high place a symbol, for the sake of vanity!" | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | "Would you wantonly build something on every elevated place?" | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | “On every high ground You build a monument to satisfy your vanity.&rdquo | |
| Faridul Haque | | “What! You build a structure on every height, to laugh at the passers-by?&rdquo | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | Do you build over each high place a sign to amuse yourselves | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Do you build on every height a monument? You (only) sport | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Do you build/construct at every/each high hill an evidence , something useless in vanity ?" | |
Sher Ali | | `Do you build monuments on every high place, seeking vain glory | |
Rashad Khalifa | | "You build on every hill a mansion for vanity's sake. | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Do you build a sign on every height to laugh at the wayfarers? | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | `What is (wrong with you)? You build a monument on every prominent place, in vain you do it | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Do you build a monument on every high point (merely) for vanity and vain pursuits | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | "Do you build high palaces on every high place, while you do not live in them | |
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
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| Linda “iLHam” Barto | | “Do you build a symbol on every high place to amuse yourselves? | |
| Sayyid Qutb | | 'Do you build a landmark on every high place, in a vain endeavour, | |
| Ahmed Hulusi | | “Do you build mansions on every hilltop and amuse yourselves?” | |
| Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli | | Do you build a landmark on every height for vain delight | |
| Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim | | "Do you erect buildings", he added, "on the top of every mount and every height, mansions and stately buildings standing in the landscape, conspicuous to view as though they are landmarks (yet not as a guide nor a mark of an event) serving no useful purpose and of no avail!" | |
| Mir Aneesuddin | | Do you build a monument on every high place, without any purpose? | |
