adh-Dhariyat 51:17

AYAH adh-Dhariyat 51:17	51:18 <= Next ayah Prev ayah => 51:16
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Arabic Source and Roman Transliteration

Arabic		كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُون
Transliteration		Kanoo qaleelan mina allayli ma yahjaAAoona
Transliteration-2		kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūn
Word for Word Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more		They used to little of the night [what] sleep.

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Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad		they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night
M. M. Pickthall		They used to sleep but little of the night
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)		They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night
Shakir		They used to sleep but little in the night
Wahiduddin Khan		sleeping little in the night-time
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar		They had been slumbering little during the night.
T.B.Irving		they used to slumber only a portion of the night
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab		they used to sleep only little in the night,
Safi Kaskas		They used to sleep a little at night,
Abdul Hye		They used to sleep but little by the night,
The Study Quran		Little of the night did they slumber
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)		They used to rarely sleep the whole night
Abdel Haleem		sleeping only little at night
Abdul Majid Daryabadi		Little of the night they were wont to slumber
Ahmed Ali		They slept little in the night
Aisha Bewley		The part of the night they spent asleep was small
Ali Ünal		They used to sleep but little by night (almost never missing the Tahajjud Prayer)
Ali Quli Qara'i		They used to sleep a little during the night
Hamid S. Aziz		They used to sleep but little in the night
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali		They used to slumber (only) little of the night
Muhammad Sarwar		They slept very little during the nigh
Muhammad Taqi Usmani		They used to sleep little in the night
Shabbir Ahmed		And rarely did they fall asleep at night without reflection. ('Haju' = Fall asleep instantly like an exhausted horse)
Syed Vickar Ahamed		They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)		They used to sleep but little of the night
Farook Malik		They used to sleep but little in the night time
Dr. Munir Munshey		They did not sleep much at night, but only a part of the time
Dr. Kamal Omar		They are — a small period out of the night which they pass in rest and sleep
Talal A. Itani (new translation)		They used to sleep a little at night
Maududi		they used to sleep but little by night
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad		They used to sleep a little of the night
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)		They were in the habit of sleeping only a little at night
Musharraf Hussain		they slept little at night,
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)		They used to rarely sleep the whole night.
Mohammad Shafi		They slept but little at nigh

Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
Bijan Moeinian		They cut their sleeping at night short to worship their Lord
Faridul Haque		They used to sleep only a little during the night
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah		They slept but a little at night
Maulana Muhammad Ali		The used to sleep but little at night
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira		They were little from the night what they (spend in) sleep
Sher Ali		They slept but a little of the night
Rashad Khalifa		Rarely did they sleep the whole night.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)		They used to sleep little by night.
Amatul Rahman Omar		They were in the habit of sleeping but a little by night (for their being occupied in God's worship)
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri		They used to sleep at night only for a short while
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali		They used to sleep but little by night (invoking their Lord (Allah) and praying, with fear and hope)

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry		Little of the night would they slumber
Edward Henry Palmer		But little of the night they slept
George Sale		They slept but a small part of the night
John Medows Rodwell		But little of the night was it that they slept
N J Dawood (2014)		sleeping but little in the night-time

New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
Linda “iLHam” Barto		They had a habit of sleeping only a little at night.
Ahmed Hulusi		They would sleep in a small portion of the night.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim		They hardly missed a night but apportioned part of it, be it little or much, to divine worship at the expense of their sleep
Mir Aneesuddin		It was (only) a small (part) of the night (during) which they used to sleep,

AYAH adh-Dhariyat 51:17

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