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Surah 91. Ash-Shams, Ayah 6

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وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰهَا
Wa a lar d i wam a t a ha h a
and the earth and all its expanse!
  - Mohammad Asad
by the earth and Him Who spread it;
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
and the earth and 'the One' Who spread it!
  - Mustafa Khattab
And the earth and Him who spread it,
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse; 6151
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The masdariya in Arabic, in this and the subsequent clauses, is best translated in English by nouns. Thus what would literally be "and the (wonderful) making or construction of it" or "the fact of its (wonderful) construction" is, idiomatically, "its (wonderful) structure." "The (wide) spreading out" of the earth is rendered "its (wide) expanse," and so on.

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