Surah 13. Ar-Ra'd, Ayah 3
| وَهُوَ الَّذِي مَدَّ الْأَرْضَ وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ وَأَنْهَارًا ۖ وَمِنْ كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ جَعَلَ فِيهَا زَوْجَيْنِ اثْنَيْنِ ۖ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- huwa 'alladhe madda al- 'ard. wa- jacala fe -haa rawaasiya wa- anhaar(an) wa- min kull ath- thamaraat jacala fe -haa zawjain ithnain yughshe al- layl an- nahaar 'inna fe dhaalika la- 'aayaat li- qawm yatafakkaron |
| Pickthall | : | And He it is who spread out the earth and placed therein firm hills and flowing streams, and of all fruits be placed therein two spouses (male and female). He covereth the night with the day. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who take thought. |
| Asad | : | And it is He who has spread the earth wide and placed on it firm mountains and running waters, and created thereon two sexes of every [kind of] plant;7 [and it is He who] causes the night to cover the day. Verily, in all this there are messages indeed for people who think! |
| Malik | : | He is the One Who spread out the earth and placed thereon mountains and rivers, created fruits of every kind in pairs, two and two and makes the night cover the day. Certainly in these things there are signs for those who use their common sense. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And it is He Who spread out the earth and set thereon mountains standing firm and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every kind He made in pairs two and two: He draweth the Night as a veil o'er the Day. Behold verily in these things there are Signs for those who consider! 1804 1805 |
Note - 7Lit., "and out of all [kinds of] fruits He made thereon
[i.e., on earth] pairs (zawjayn ithnayn)". The term zawj
denotes, according to the context, either "a pair" or
"one of a pair". Whenever the dual form zawjan is
followed by the additional numerical definition ithnan
("two"), it invariably signifies "a pair comprising both
sexes". Thus, the above phrase states that there are two
sexes to every kind of plant: a statement fufly in accord
with botanical science. (Usually. the male and female
organs of reproduction exist together in one and the same
flower of a particular plant, e.g., cotton;
alternatively, they are placed in separate flowers of one
and the same plant, e.g., in most of the cucurbitaceae;
and, in some rare cases, e.g., the date-palm, in entirely
separate, uni-sexual plants of the same species.)
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Note - 1804I think that this refers to sex in plants, and I see M.P.
has translated accordingly. Plants like animals have
their reproductive apparatus,-male stamens and female
pistils. In most cases the same flower combines both
stamens and pistils, but in some cases these organs are
specialised in separate flowers, and in some cases, even
in separate trees. The date-palm of Arabia and the
Papaiya of India, are instances of fruit trees which are
uni-sexual.
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Note - 1805Cf. vii. 54 and n. 1032. The whole passage there may be
compared with the whole passage here. Both their
similarity and their variation show how closely reasoned
each argument is, with expressions exactly appropriate to
each occasion.
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Lit., "and out of all [kinds of] fruits He made thereon [i.e., on earth] pairs (zawjayn ithnayn)". The term zawj denotes, according to the context, either "a pair" or "one of a pair". Whenever the dual form zawjan is followed by the additional numerical definition ithnan ("two"), it invariably signifies "a pair comprising both sexes". Thus, the above phrase states that there are two sexes to every kind of plant: a statement fufly in accord with botanical science. (Usually. the male and female organs of reproduction exist together in one and the same flower of a particular plant, e.g., cotton; alternatively, they are placed in separate flowers of one and the same plant, e.g., in most of the cucurbitaceae; and, in some rare cases, e.g., the date-palm, in entirely separate, uni-sexual plants of the same species.) |
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I think that this refers to sex in plants, and I see M.P. has translated accordingly. Plants like animals have their reproductive apparatus,-male stamens and female pistils. In most cases the same flower combines both stamens and pistils, but in some cases these organs are specialised in separate flowers, and in some cases, even in separate trees. The date-palm of Arabia and the Papaiya of India, are instances of fruit trees which are uni-sexual. |
