50. Qaf [45 verses]

Mecca Period 34

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوا إِلَى السَّمَاء...

50: 6.    Do they not look at the sky above them?

...فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَاهَا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍ ﴿٦﴾

How We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it?

C4945. The greatest philosophers have found a difficulty in understanding the skeptical position when they contemplate the wonder and mystery of the skies with all the countless beautiful stars and planets and light in them, and laws of order, motion, and symmetry, that respond to the highest mathematical abstractions without a flaw. Can blind Chance give rise to such conditions?

Asad’s Version:

50:6 Do they not look at the sky above them - how We have built it and made it beautiful and free of all faults?' 5