Text of verse 23:84
قُل لِّمَنِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهَآ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ٨٤
Transliteration
qul limani l-arḍu waman fīhā in kuntum taʿlamūna
Translation
Say, [O Muḥammad], "To whom belongs the earth and whoever is in it, if you should know?"
سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٨٤
قُل لِّمَنِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهَآ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ٨٤
qul limani l-arḍu waman fīhā in kuntum taʿlamūna
Say, [O Muḥammad], "To whom belongs the earth and whoever is in it, if you should know?"
Verse 84 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:84), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 347 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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O Messenger, say to these disbelievers who deny the resurrection: “Who does this earth and those on it belong to, if you have any knowledge?”
Say, “To whom belong the earth and all those who are on it, if you really know?”
Say: "Whose is the earth and whosoever is therein? If you know!"
Say: Unto Whom (belongeth) the earth and whosoever is therein, if ye have knowledge?
Say: "To whom belong the earth and all beings therein? (say) if ye know!"
Say: Whose is the earth, and whoever is therein, if you know?
Say, "To whom does the earth belong, and whoever is in it, in case you know?"
وَمَآ أَكْثَرُ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ
And most of the people, although you strive [for it], are not believers.
لَا ٱلشَّمْسُ يَنۢبَغِى لَهَآ أَن تُدْرِكَ ٱلْقَمَرَ وَلَا ٱلَّيْلُ سَابِقُ ٱلنَّهَارِ وَكُلٌّ فِى فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ
It is not allowable [i.e., possible] for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.
أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ …
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary? …