Quran 21:30 — Al-Anbiyaa, verse 30
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Are the disbelievers not aware that the heavens and the earth used to be joined together and that We ripped them apart, that We made every living thing from water? Will they not believe?
أَوَلَمْ يَرَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا ۖ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَيٍّ ۖ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
awalam yara alladhīna kafarū anna l-samāwāti wal-arḍa kānatā ratqan fafataqnāhumā wajaʿalnā mina l-māi kulla shayin ḥayyin afalā yu'minūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe?
- Muhammad Asad
- ARE, THEN, they who are bent on denying the truth not aware that the heavens and the earth were [once] one single entity, which We then parted asunder? – and [that] We made out of water every living thing? Will they not, then, [begin to] believe?
- Sahih International
- Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | أَوَلَمْawalam | Do not | — |
| 2 | يَرَyara | see | رأي |
| 3 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those who | — |
| 4 | كَفَرُوٓا۟kafarū | disbelieved | كفر |
| 5 | أَنَّanna | that | — |
| 6 | ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِl-samāwāti | the heavens | سمو |
| 7 | وَٱلْأَرْضَwal-arḍa | and the earth | أرض |
| 8 | كَانَتَاkānatā | were | كون |
| 9 | رَتْقًۭاratqan | a joined entity | رتق |
| 10 | فَفَتَقْنَـٰهُمَا ۖfafataqnāhumā | then We parted them | فتق |
| 11 | وَجَعَلْنَاwajaʿalnā | and We made | جعل |
| 12 | مِنَmina | from | — |
| 13 | ٱلْمَآءِl-māi | [the] water | موه |
| 14 | كُلَّkulla | every | كلل |
| 15 | شَىْءٍshayin | living thing | شيأ |
| 16 | حَىٍّ ۖḥayyin | living thing | حيي |
| 17 | أَفَلَاafalā | Then will not | — |
| 18 | يُؤْمِنُونَyu'minūna | they believe | أمن |