Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | [and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws] |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law) | |
Shakir | | Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day: each floats in [its own] orbit | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | It is not fit and proper for the sun to overtake the moon nor the nighttime one to take the lead over the daytime. They each swim in an orbit. | |
| T.B.Irving | | The sun dare not overtake the moon nor does night outpace the day. Each floats along in its own orbit. | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | It is not for the sun to catch up with the moon, nor does the night outrun the day. Each is travelling in an orbit of their own. | |
| Safi Kaskas | | The sun is not allowed to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each floats in their own orbit. | |
| Abdul Hye | | The sun is neither permitted to overtake the moon nor does the night outstrip the day. They all each float in its own orbit. | |
| The Study Quran | | It befits not the sun to overtake the moon, nor the night to outstrip the day. Each glides in an orbit | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit | |
Abdel Haleem | | The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day: each floats in [its own] orbit | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | It is not permitted to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day: each in an orbit, they float | |
Ahmed Ali | | Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit | |
Aisha Bewley | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere. | |
Ali Ünal | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. All (the celestial bodies and systems) float in an orbit (determined for each) | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in their own orbits | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | It does not behoove the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the daytime, and each is swimming in an orbit | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | how the sun is not supposed to catch-up with the moon, nor is the night to precede the day. All of them are to float in a certain orbit | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | Neither it is for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day. Each one is floating in an orbit | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day. All of them swim along in their orbits. (The sun cannot cause the moon to gravitate towards itself and the night and the day cannot lengthen or shorten other than the appointed measure (21:33), (22:61), (25:62), (31:29), (41:37), (57:6)) | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | It is not allowed for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night overtake the day: Each (can only) stay on in (its own) path (according to the Order of Allah) | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming | |
Farook Malik | | Neither it is possible for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day: each floats along in its own orbit | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | It is not ordained for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outpace the day. Each, (the sun and the moon), is afloat in its respective orbit | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | The sun: it suits it not that it may join the moon, and nor the night that it is one that outstrips the day. [The night, by itself, cannot override the day time to merge a portion of the day-time into the hours of the night]. And all swiftly move in space | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit | |
Maududi | | Neither does it lie in the sun´s power to overtake the moon nor can the night outstrip the day. All glide along, each in its own orbit | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | It is not appropriate (or required) of the sun to catch up with the moon, and not the night to get ahead of the day, and each flow in an orbit | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | It is not permitted for the Sun to catch the Moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. Each swims along in its own orbit | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | The sun can’t overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day; all are floating in their fixed orbits. | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Neither is it possible for the sun to overtake the moon (for their paths are different), nor can the night take the place of the day. And all float on in orbit | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | God has put such an impeccable order in the nature that neither sun can overtake the moon nor the night to outstrip the day. Everything is gliding in its predetermined order in the universe | |
| Faridul Haque | | It is not for the sun to catch up with the moon, nor does the night surpass the day; and each one of them floats in its orbit | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | The sun shall not outstrip the moon, nor shall the night outstrip the day. Each is floating in an orbit | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | The sun should not (be) to it that it catches up/overtakes/reaches the moon, and nor the night (is) surpassing/preceding the daytime, and each (is) in (an) orbit/circuit floating | |
Sher Ali | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. All of them float smoothly in an orbit | |
Rashad Khalifa | | The sun is never to catch up with the moon - the night and the day never deviate - each of them is floating in its own orbit. | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | It is not for the sun that it might catch the moon and nor the night may supercede the day. And each one is floating in an orbit. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | It is not given to the sun to attain to (the purpose ordained for) the moon, nor is it given to the night to outstrip the day. All of these (luminaries) go on floating smoothly in an orbit (of their own) | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Neither can the sun (deviate from its orbit and) overtake the moon, nor can the night precede the day, and all (the stars and planets) are moving in their respective orbits | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit | |
