Quran 36 : 40

Not the sun is permitted for it - that it overtakes the moon, and not the night (can) outstrip the day, but all in an orbit they are floating.
لَا
ٱلشَّمْسُ
Ashshamsu
يَنۢبَغِى
Yanbaghiā
لَهَآ
Lahaa
أَن
Aan
تُدْرِكَ
Tudrika
ٱلْقَمَرَ
Alqamara
وَلَا
Walā
ٱلَّيْلُ
Allaylu
سَابِقُ
Sābiqu
ٱلنَّهَارِ
Annahāri
وَكُلٌّ
Wakullun
فِى
Fiā
فَلَكٍ
Falakin
يَسْبَحُونَ
Yasbaḥūna

Talal Itani (2012)

The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit

Ahmed Hulusi

Neither will the Sun overtake the Moon nor the night outpace the day! Each floats in its own orbit.

N J Dawood 2014

The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor does the night outpace the day. Each in its own orbit swims

Irving/Hegab

The sun dare not overtake the moon nor does night outpace the day. Each floats along in its own orbit.

T.B.Irving

The sun dare not overtake the moon nor does night outpace the day. Each floats along in its own orbit.

The Study Quran

It befits not the sun to overtake the moon, nor the night to outstrip the day. Each glides in an orbit

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

The sun shall not outstrip the moon, nor shall the night outstrip the day. Each is floating in an orbit

Musharraf Hussain

The sun can’t overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day; all are floating in their fixed orbits.

Abdel Haleem

The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day: each floats in [its own] orbit

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

The sun is not permitted to overtake the moon, nor does the night outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit.

Wahiduddin Khan

The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day: each floats in [its own] orbit

Arthur John Arberry

It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit

Samy Mahdy

The sun should not reach the moon, nor is the night to outstrip the day. And all, in an orbit, are swimming.

Ahmed Ali

Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit

Ali Quli Qara'i

Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit

Hilali - Khan

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit

Munir Mezyed

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere.

MunirMezyed2023

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. Each one is swimming in a sphere.

Safi Kaskas

The sun is not allowed to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each floats in their own orbit.

Aisha Bewley

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Neither it is for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day. Each one is floating in an orbit

Linda "iLham" Barto

The sun is not permitted to catch up with the moon. The night cannot interfere with the day. Each swims in orbit.

Sher Ali

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. All of them float smoothly in an orbit

The Wise Quran

It is not proper for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day, but each floats in an orbit.

Fode Drame

It is not fitting for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to advance the day. And each swimming in an orbit.

Bilal Muhammad 2018

It is not permitted for the Sun to catch the Moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. Each swims along in its own orbit

Mustaqim

It is not befitting for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to precede the day, and each travels in an orbit.

Edward Henry Palmer

Neither is it proper for it to catch up the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day, but each one floats on in its sky

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

The sun is not required to overtake the moon, nor will the night precede the day; each of them is swimming in its own orbit

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

It does not behoove the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the daytime, and each is swimming in an orbit

Abdul Hye

The sun is neither permitted to overtake the moon nor does the night outstrip the day. They all each float in its own orbit.

Faridul Haque

It is not for the sun to catch up with the moon, nor does the night surpass the day; and each one of them floats in its orbit

Rashad Khalifa

The sun is never to catch up with the moon - the night and the day never deviate - each of them is floating in its own orbit.

John Medows Rodwell

To the Sun it is not given to overtake the Moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth journey on

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

It is not permitted to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day: each in an orbit, they float

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

It is not for the sun that it might catch the moon and nor the night may supercede the day. And each one is floating in an orbit.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

It is not for the sun to catch up with the moon, nor does the night outrun the day. Each is travelling in an orbit of their own.

Mir Aneesuddin

Neither it is possible for the sun to catch (up with) the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day and each moves fast in an orbit.

Shakir

Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere

Muhammad Sarwar

how the sun is not supposed to catch-up with the moon, nor is the night to precede the day. All of them are to float in a certain orbit

Corpus.Quran

Not the sun is permitted for it that it overtakes the moon and not the night (can) outstrip the day but all in an orbit they are floating

Maududi

Neither does it lie in the sun´s power to overtake the moon nor can the night outstrip the day. All glide along, each in its own orbit

Hamid S. Aziz

Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in their own orbits

Bakhtiari Nejad

It is not appropriate (or required) of the sun to catch up with the moon, and not the night to get ahead of the day, and each flow in an orbit.

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

It is not fit and proper for the sun to overtake the moon nor the nighttime one to take the lead over the daytime. They each swim in an orbit.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law)

Dr. Munir Munshey

It is not ordained for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outpace the day. Each, (the sun and the moon), is afloat in its respective orbit

Ali Ünal

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. All (the celestial bodies and systems) float in an orbit (determined for each)

Mohammad Shafi

Neither is it possible for the sun to overtake the moon (for their paths are different), nor can the night take the place of the day. And all float on in orbit

Syed Vickar Ahamed

It is not allowed for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night overtake the day: Each (can only) stay on in (its own) path (according to the Order of Allah)

George Sale

It is not expedient that the sun should overtake the moon in her course; neither doth the night outstrip the day: But each of these luminaries moveth in a peculiar orbit

Muhammad Asad

[and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws]

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Neither can the sun (deviate from its orbit and) overtake the moon, nor can the night precede the day, and all (the stars and planets) are moving in their respective orbits

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

The sun should not (be) to it that it catches up/overtakes/reaches the moon, and nor the night (is) surpassing/preceding the daytime, and each (is) in (an) orbit/circuit floating

Bijan Moeinian

God has put such an impeccable order in the nature that neither sun can overtake the moon nor the night to outstrip the day. Everything is gliding in its predetermined order in the universe

Amatul Rahman Omar

It is not given to the sun to attain to (the purpose ordained for) the moon, nor is it given to the night to outstrip the day. All of these (luminaries) go on floating smoothly in an orbit (of their own)

Dr. Kamal Omar

The sun: it suits it not that it may join the moon, and nor the night that it is one that outstrips the day. [The night, by itself, cannot override the day time to merge a portion of the day-time into the hours of the night]. And all swiftly move in space

Shabbir Ahmed

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day. All of them swim along in their orbits. (The sun cannot cause the moon to gravitate towards itself and the night and the day cannot lengthen or shorten other than the appointed measure (21:33), (22:61), (25:62), (31:29), (41:37), (57:6))