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CONSIDER the flight of time
By the afternoon
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages)
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 وَٱلْعَصْرِ
wal-ʿaṣri
By the ˹passage of˺ time
By the time,
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
CONSIDER the flight of time
By the declining day
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages)
By the ˹passage of˺ time!
I swear by the passage of time,
I swear by the passage of time
I swear by the time
By time through the ages,
By eventide,
By the time (through the ages)!
By the waning of every day
By the declining day
By time.
By time
(Passage of) time (through the ages) acts as a witness
By the time through the ages
And (by) the afternoon! (Or: time)
By the time (of the advent of Islam)
(I swear) by the Time
Time that flies and has flown, bears witness
(I swear) by Time
By (the Promise of) time (infinite), ('Asr also refers to afternoon prayer, or later part in life
By time
By time.
By the declining day
By the time
TIME AND AGE are witness
By the Late Afternoon,
By Time (especially the last part of it, heavy with events)
By Time
By the declining day
By the time (the ages),
By time
By the age,
By the time
By the time
Controversial or status undetermined works
By the time of the beloved (Prophet).
By the afternoon
By the time of the afternoon
By the time
And/by the time/era/end of day to dusk
Hereby God swears by time
By oath of this era of yours (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him)
By the Time
By time,
By the passing time (whose rotation bears witness to the affairs of mankind). Or By the Prayer of declining day (‘Asr, for this Prayer is the middle of all Prayers). Or By the declining time of the day, (when the sun, after shining for the whole day, presents the sight of its setting). Or By the holy era of the Prophethood of Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him), the sole objective and the most coveted achievement of all ages historic as well as pre-historic, and of all times to come
I cite as witness the Time
By Al-Asr (the time)
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
By the afternoon
By the afternoon
By the afternoon
I SWEAR by the declining day
I SWEAR by the declining day
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
By (Wa) the era (El'Äs'r)*,
By the age.
I swear by the time!
By Time,
By Time—
Consider time!
By eventide,
(Swear) And by (Al-Asr) The era (Part of Time).
I swear by the declining day
By Time!
By the epoch,
By that time (the life span of man),
By Al-`Asr.
By the time:
By the passing time
By the era distinctive of life on earth
By the time (i.e. historic time is witness that:)
By time,
Obsolete and/or older editions
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages)
By time
By time
By the time
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