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Arabic   
أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتً
Transliteration (2021)   
alam najʿali l-arḍa kifāta
Word for Word
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Have not We made the earth a receptacle

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
Have We not caused the earth to hold within itsel
M. M. Pickthall   
Have We not made the earth a receptacl
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
Have We not made the earth (as a place) to draw together
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
Have We not made the earth a lodging
Safi Kaskas   
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Wahiduddin Khan   
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Shakir   
Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
Make We not the earth a place of drawing together
T.B.Irving   
Have We not placed the earth as a round up
Abdul Hye   
Have We not made the earth a home for both
The Study Quran   
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Dr. Kamal Omar   
Have We not made the earth as a den of storage —
Farook Malik   
Have We not made the earth a home for bot
Talal A. Itani (new translation)   
Did We not make the earth a homestead
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
Have We not made the earth a receptacle
Muhammad Sarwar   
Did We not make the earth as a gathering plac
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
Did We not make the earth a container that collect
Shabbir Ahmed   
Have We not made the earth a vessel
Dr. Munir Munshey   
Did We not appoint the earth to accommodate
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
Have We not made the earth (as a place) to bring togethe
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
Have We not made the earth a containe
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
Did We not make the Earth an abod
Abdel Haleem   
Did We not make the earth a hom
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
Have We not made the earth a receptacle
Ahmed Ali   
Have We not made the earth a repositor
Aisha Bewley   
Did We not make the earth a receptacle
Ali Ünal   
Have We not made the earth a receptacl
Ali Quli Qara'i   
Have We not made the earth a receptacl
Hamid S. Aziz   
Have We not made the earth draw together to itself
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
Did We not make the earth a holde
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
Have We not made the earth to draw together
Musharraf Hussain   
Didn’t We make the Earth a place for holding back
Maududi   
Did We not make the earth a receptacle
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
Did We not make the earth an abode,
Mohammad Shafi   
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Maulana Muhammad Ali   
Have We not made the earth draw to itsel
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira   
Did We not make the earth/Planet Earth encompassing/containing internally and externally
Bijan Moeinian   
Have I (God) not made the earth’s components to gravitate to each other
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Did We not make the earth a storehouse
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New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
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Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
Have We not placed the earth as receptible
Ahmed Hulusi   
Did We not make the earth a place of gathering?
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
Have We not made the earth (as a place) to draw together
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim   
Did We not make the earth widely spread,
Mir Aneesuddin   
Did We not make the earth, one that draws together to itself,

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
Have We not made the earth (as a place) to draw together
OLD Literal Word for Word   
Have not We made the earth a receptacl