Quran Ayah as-Saffat (Those Who Set The Ranks, Drawn up in Ranks, The Rangers) 37:156 - 70+ Translation Comparison

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Muhammad Asad

Or have you, perchance, a clear evidence [for your assertions]

Arthur John Arberry

Or have you a clear authority

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Or have ye an authority manifest

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Arabic

أَمۡ لَكُمۡ سُلۡطَـٰنࣱ مُّبِینࣱ ۝١٥٦

Transliteration (2021)

am lakum sul'ṭānun mubīnu

Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Or (is) for you an authority clear?

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

Or have you, perchance, a clear evidence [for your assertions]

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Or have ye an authority manifest

M. M. Pickthall

Or have ye a clear warrant

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Or do you have ˹any˺ compelling proof?

Wahiduddin Khan

Or have you clear evidence

Safi Kaskas

Or do you have a clear authority [for what you allege]?

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Or is there for you a clear authority?

T.B.Irving

Or do you have some clear authority?

Shakir

Or have you a clear authority

Abdul Hye

Or is there any plain authority for you?

Saeed Malik

Or do you have a revealing authoritative claim?

The Study Quran

Or have you a manifest authority

Talal Itani & AI (2025)

Or do you have clear authority?

Talal Itani (2012)

Or do you have some clear proof

M. Farook Malik

Or do you have any proof of what you are saying

Dr. Kamal Omar

Or is there for you a ‘Sultanun Mobin’ (‘Evident Authority’. This term is applied as an attribute to Allah’s Book)

Dr. Munir Munshey

Or do you have a clear authority (to hold such views)

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Or do you have a clear authority

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Or do you have a clear authority

Muhammad Sarwar

Do you have clear authority

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Or, is it that there is some open authority with you

Shabbir Ahmed

Or have you a clear authoritative evidence

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Or even do you have an evident all- binding authority

Hamid S. Aziz

Or have you a clear authority

Abdel Haleem

Do you perhaps have clear authority

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Or, is there for you a clear warrant

Ahmed Ali

Or have you received some clear authority

Aisha Bewley

Or do you have some clear authority?

Ali Ünal

Or do you have a clear authority (of evidence)

Ali Quli Qara'i

Do you have a manifest authority

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

Or do you have a clear proof?

Musharraf Hussain

Or do you have evidence?

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Or have you an authority manifest

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

Or do you have a clear reason?

Maududi

Do you have any clear authority for such claims

Mohammad Shafi

Or, do you have any clear authority

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Or have you any clear authority?

Rashad Khalifa

Do you have any proof?

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Or, do you have a clear authority

Faridul Haque

“Or do you have some clear proof?”

Bijan Moeinian

Do they have any logical proof for their assigning children to God

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Or have you a clear authority

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

Or for you (is) a clear/evident proof/evidence

Sher Ali

Or, have you a clear authority

Edip Yuksel

Or do you have a clear proof?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Or have you a clear authority (in your defence for your false beliefs)

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Do you have any clear proof (to establish your philosophy and ideology)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Or is there for you a plain authority

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

N J Dawood (2014)

Have you a veritable proof

Arthur John Arberry

Or have you a clear authority

Edward Henry Palmer

or have ye obvious authority

George Sale

Or have ye a manifest proof of what ye say

John Medows Rodwell

Have ye a clear proof for them

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Shuaib Abdullahi

Or (Am') do you have (Lakum') a clear (Mubiin) authority (Sul'toanun)?

Fode Drame

Or is it that for you there is an evident authority?

Munir Mezyed

Or do you have a clear authority?

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Or do you have a clear authority?

Linda “iLHam” Barto

Do you have a clear evidence?

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

Or do you^pl have an evident manifestation?

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

Or do you have some clear authority?

Samy Mahdy

Or for you an obvious Sultan?

Sayyid Qutb

Or do you perhaps, have a clear authority?

Ali Quli Qarai

Do you have a manifest authority?

Ahmed Hulusi

Or do you have clear evidence?

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Or is there for you a plain authority

A. S. Mohamed

Or do you have some clear authority?

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

Or have you a clear authority?

Mir Aneesuddin

Or have you a clear authority?

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

Or do you have a divine authorization to sanction this belief that you speak like a book

The Wise Quran Project

Or have you clear authority?

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Or have ye an authority manifest

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Or do you have a clear proof

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

Or do you have a clear proo

OLD Literal Word for Word

Or (is) for you an authority clear

OLD Transliteration

Am lakum sultanun mubeenun

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