Out of Context

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur’an) side by side
paper copies of the translations by Irfan Ali
Y: = Qur’an Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
P: = Qur’an Translation by Marmaduke Pickthall
S: = Qur’an Translation by Mohammad Habib Shakir

P: Have not hose who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?

S: Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them; and We have made of water everything living, will they not then believe?

021.031 Y: And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them, and We have made therein broad highways (between mountains) for them to pass through: that they may receive Guidance.

P: And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way.

S: And We have made great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and We have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction.

021.032 Y: And We have made the heavens as a canopy well guarded: yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)!

P: And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.

S: And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and (yet) they turn aside from its signs.