21. Surah Al Anbiya'

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَجَعَلْنَا السَّمَاء سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا...  

21: 32.  And We have made the heavens as a canopy well-guarded:

C2694. Canopy well guarded: the heavens form a canopy that is secure from falling down: they also form a sublime spectacle and a Mystery that man can only faintly reach.

Cf. also 15:17.

...وَهُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ ﴿٣٢﴾

Yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)!

Other versions:

21: 32 [al-Anbiyaa, Mecca 73]

Asad and [that] We have set up the sky as a canopy well-secured?"

And yet, they stubbornly turn away from [all] the signs of this [creation],

Yusuf Ali And We have made the heavens as a canopy well-guarded: Yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)!

Pickthall And We have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.

Transliteration Wa ja'alnas sama_a saqfam mahfu_zaw wa hum an a_ya_tiha_ muridu_n