Surah 18. Al-Kahf, Ayah 109
| قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا |
| Transliteration | : | qul law kaana al- bah.r midaad(an) li- kalimaat rabb -e la- nafida al- bah.r qabla 'an tanfad kalimaat rabb -e wa- law ji'naa bi- mithl -hi madad(an) |
| Pickthall | : | Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the Words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help. |
| Asad | : | SAY: "If all the sea were ink for my Sustainer's words, the sea would indeed be exhausted ere my Sustainer's words are exhausted! And [thus it would be] if we were to add to it sea upon sea." 105 |
| Malik | : | O Muhammad tell them: "If the ocean were ink with which to write the words of my Rabb, the ocean would surely be consumed before the words of my Rabb are finished, even if We brought similar quantity of ink to replenish it. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord even if we added another ocean like it for its aid." 2453 |
Note - 105Lit., "if We were to produce the like of it [i.e., of the
sea] in addition". It is to be noted that, as pointed out
by Zamakhshari, the term al-bahr ("the sea") is used here
in a generic sense, comprising all the seas that exist:
hence, the expression "the like of it" has been rendered
by me as "sea upon sea". (See also 31:27).
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Note - 2453The Words and Signs and Mercies of Allah are in all
Creation, and can never be fully set out in human
language, however extended our means may be imagined to
be.
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Lit., "if We were to produce the like of it [i.e., of the sea] in addition". It is to be noted that, as pointed out by Zamakhshari, the term al-bahr ("the sea") is used here in a generic sense, comprising all the seas that exist: hence, the expression "the like of it" has been rendered by me as "sea upon sea". (See also 31:27). |
