6. [al-Anam, Cattle Mecca 55]
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
فَالِقُ
الإِصْبَاحِ
وَجَعَلَ اللَّيْلَ
سَكَنًا وَالشَّمْسَ
وَالْقَمَرَ
حُسْبَانًا...
6: 96. He it is that cleaveth the daybreak (from the dark):
He makes the night for rest and tranquility, and the sun and moon for the reckoning (of time):
...ذَلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ ﴿٩٦﴾
such is the judgment and ordering of (Him), the Exalted in Power, the Omniscient.
C921. The night, the day, the sun, the moon, -the great astronomical universe of Allah. How far, and yet how near to us!
Allah's universe is boundless, and we can barely comprehend even its relations to us. But this last we must try to do if we want to be numbered with "the people who know".
Taqdir: Cf. 6:91 and n. 909, and 4:149 and n. 655.
6: 96
Asad [He is] the One who causes the dawn to break; and He has made the night to be [a source of] stillness, and the sun and the moon to run their appointed courses [note 81]: [all] this is laid down by the will of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
Pickthall He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.
Transliteration Fa_liqul isba_h(i), wa ja'alal laila sakanaw wasy syamsa wal qamara husba_na_(n), za_lika taqdirul 'azizil'alim(i).