21. [al-Anbiyaa, Mecca 73]

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ...  

21: 33.  It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the sun and the moon:

...كُلٌّ فِي فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾

all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course.

C2695. 1 have indicated, unlike most translators, the metaphor of swimming implied in the original words: how beautiful it is to contemplate the heavenly bodies swimming through space (or ether) in their rounded courses before our gaze!

Asad’s Version:

21: 33

Asad and [fail to see that] it is He who has created the night and the day and the sun and the moon - all of them floating through space !

Pickthall’s Version:

Pickthall And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.

Transliteration Wa huwal lazi halaqal laila wan naha_ra was samsa wal qamar kul lun fi falakiy yasbahu_n