ar-Rahman 55:58

AYAH ar-Rahman 55:58	55:59 <= Next ayah Prev ayah => 55:57
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Arabic Source and Roman Transliteration

Arabic		كَأَنَّهُنَّ الْيَاقُوتُ وَالْمَرْجَان
Transliteration		Kaannahunna alyaqootu waalmarjanu
Transliteration-2		ka-annahunna l-yāqūtu wal-marjān
Word for Word Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more		As if they were rubies and coral.

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Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad		[When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls &ndash
M. M. Pickthall		(In beauty) like the jacynth and the coral-stone
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)		Like unto Rubies and coral
Shakir		As though they were rubies and pearls
Wahiduddin Khan		[There will be] maidens as fair as corals and rubies
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar		They are as if they were like rubies and coral.
T.B.Irving		They will be like rubies and coral;
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab		Those ˹maidens˺ will be ˹as elegant˺ as rubies and coral.
Safi Kaskas		As though they were rubies and coral.
Abdul Hye		They are (in beauty) like rubies and coral.
The Study Quran		So which of your Lord’s boons do you two deny
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)		They look like rubies and coral
Abdel Haleem		Like rubies and brilliant pearls
Abdul Majid Daryabadi		As though they are jacinth and coral
Ahmed Ali		As though rubies and pearls
Aisha Bewley		Like precious gems of ruby and pearl.
Ali Ünal		Like rubies and coral (they will seem, in rare beauty and radiance)
Ali Quli Qara'i		As though they were rubies and corals
Hamid S. Aziz		As though they were rubies and corals (or pearls)
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali		As if they were the rubies and the all-merged coral (stones)
Muhammad Sarwar		who are as beautiful as rubies and pearls
Muhammad Taqi Usmani		They will look like rubies and corals
Shabbir Ahmed		Like unto rubies and pearls
Syed Vickar Ahamed		They are like Rubies and Coral
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)		As if they were rubies and coral
Farook Malik		So beautiful as though they were rubies and corals
Dr. Munir Munshey		(So very lovely), as if they were rubies and pearls
Dr. Kamal Omar		(In beauty) — as if they (are) the rubies and the corals
Talal A. Itani (new translation)		As though they were rubies and corals
Maududi		Lovely as rubies and pearls
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad		They are like the ruby and the coral
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)		Like unto rubies and coral
Musharraf Hussain		Like glamorous rubies and pearls.
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)		They look like rubies and coral
Mohammad Shafi		[Those mates are] as though they were rubies and precious corals

Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
Bijan Moeinian		As beautiful as rubies and pearls
Faridul Haque		They are like rubies and coral-stone
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah		As (lovely as) rubies and as (beautiful as) coral
Maulana Muhammad Ali		As though they were rubies and pearls
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira		As if/though they (F) are corundum/hardest mineral after diamond (rubies/sapphires/ topazes), and the corals
Sher Ali		As if they were rubies and small pearls
Rashad Khalifa		They look like gems and coral.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)		As if they are rubies and corals.
Amatul Rahman Omar		(These maidens will look) as if they were (made of) rubies and small pearls
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri		As if they (chaste maidens) were rubies and pearls
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali		(In beauty) they are like rubies and coral

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry		lovely as rubies, beautiful as coral -
Edward Henry Palmer		As though they were rubies and pearls
George Sale		Having complexions like rubies and pearls
John Medows Rodwell		Like jacynths and pearls
N J Dawood (2014)		Virgins as fair as corals and rubies

New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
Linda “iLHam” Barto		[They will be] like rubies and coral.
Ahmed Hulusi		As if they are rubies or coral.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim		Beauties representing the rare and valuable precious stones of ruby and those of coral
Mir Aneesuddin		As if they were rubies and corals.

AYAH ar-Rahman 55:58

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