Quran 17:66 — Al-Israa, verse 66
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
[People], it is your Lord who makes ships go smoothly for you on the sea so that you can seek His bounty: He is most merciful towards you.
رَبُّكُمُ الَّذِي يُزْجِي لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ فِي الْبَحْرِ لِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا
rabbukumu alladhī yuz'jī lakumu l-ful'ka fī l-baḥri litabtaghū min faḍlihi innahu kāna bikum raḥīman
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Your Lord it is who drives for you the ships on the sea that you may seek His bounty; surely He is All-compassionate towards you.
- Muhammad Asad
- YOUR SUSTAINER is He who causes ships to move onward for you through the sea, so that you might go about in quest of some of His bounty: verily, a dispenser of grace is He unto you.
- Sahih International
- It is your Lord who drives the ship for you through the sea that you may seek of His bounty. Indeed, He is ever, to you, Merciful.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | رَّبُّكُمُrabbukumu | Your Lord | ربب |
| 2 | ٱلَّذِىalladhī | (is) the One Who | — |
| 3 | يُزْجِىyuz'jī | drives | زجو |
| 4 | لَكُمُlakumu | for you | — |
| 5 | ٱلْفُلْكَl-ful'ka | the ship | فلك |
| 6 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 7 | ٱلْبَحْرِl-baḥri | the sea | بحر |
| 8 | لِتَبْتَغُوا۟litabtaghū | that you may seek | بغي |
| 9 | مِنmin | of | — |
| 10 | فَضْلِهِۦٓ ۚfaḍlihi | His Bounty | فضل |
| 11 | إِنَّهُۥinnahu | Indeed, He | — |
| 12 | كَانَkāna | is | كون |
| 13 | بِكُمْbikum | to you | — |
| 14 | رَحِيمًۭاraḥīman | Ever Merciful | رحم |