Text of verse 21:32
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا وَهُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ ٣٢
Transliteration
wajaʿalnā l-samāa saqfan maḥfūẓan wahum ʿan āyātihā muʿ'riḍūna
Translation
And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs,884 are turning away.
Notes [884] The signs present in the heavens.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 32 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:32), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 324 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 32
Al-Mukhtasar
And I made the sky a roof protected from falling and without any pillar, and protected from stealing words. But the idolaters turn away and do not consider the signs in the sky, such as the sun and moon.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Anbya
Other translations of verse 32
And We have made the sky a well-protected canopy, yet they turn away from its signs15 .
Notes [15] Such as the sun and the moon.
And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet they turn away from its signs (i.e. sun, moon, winds, clouds, etc.).
And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.
And We have made the heavens as a canopy well guarded: yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)!
And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and (yet) they turn aside from its signs.
And We have made the heaven as a roof well-preserved, and (yet still) from its signs they are veering away.
Verse 32 word by word
وَجَعَلْنَا
wajaʿalnā And We made ج ع ل
ٱلسَّمَآءَ
l-samāa the sky س م و
سَقْفًا
saqfan a roof س ق ف
مَّحْفُوظًا
maḥfūẓan protected ح ف ظ
وَهُمْ
wahum But they
عَنْ
ʿan from
ءَايَٰتِهَا
āyātihā its Signs أ ي ي
مُعْرِضُونَ
muʿ'riḍūna turn away ع ر ض
Verses related to verse 32
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Adh-Dhariyat 51:47
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ
And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
Ash-Shams 91:5
وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا
And [by] the sky and He who constructed it
Qaf 50:6
أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍ
Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?
Yusuf 12:105
وَكَأَيِّن مِّنْ ءَايَةٍ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ يَمُرُّونَ عَلَيْهَا وَهُمْ عَنْهَا مُعْرِضُونَ
And how many a sign within the heavens and earth do they pass over while they, therefrom, are turning away.
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Surah Al-Anbya
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112 verses · Meccan