Surah 36. Ya-Sin, Ayah 36
| سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَزْوَاجَ كُلَّهَا مِمَّا تُنْبِتُ الْأَرْضُ وَمِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَمِمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | subh.aana 'alladhe khalaqa al- azwaaj kull -haa min maa tunbit al- 'ard. wa- min anfus -him wa- min maa laa yaclamon |
| Pickthall | : | Glory be to Him Who created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth groweth, and of themselves, and of that which they know not! |
| Asad | : | Limitless in His glory is He who has created opposites in whatever the earth produces, and in men's own selves, and in that of which [as yet] they have no knowledge.18 |
| Malik | : | Glory be to Allah Who created all things in pairs: the plants of the earth, mankind themselves and other living things which they do not know. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Glory to Allah Who created in pairs all things that the earth produces as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge. 3981 |
Note - 18Lit., "who has created all the pairs out of whatever the
earth produces, and out of themselves, and out of that of
which they have no knowledge": a reference to the
polarity evident in all creation, both animate and
inanimate, which expresses itself in the existence of
antithetic and yet complementary forces, like the
sexuality in human beings, animals and plants, light and
darkness, heat and cold, positive and negative magnetism
and electricity, the positive and negative charges
(protons and electrons) in the structure of the atom, and
so forth. (It is to be borne in mind that the noun zawj
denotes both "a pair" and "one of a pair", as explained
in note [7] on {13:3.}) The mention of "that of which
they have no knowledge" evidently relates to things or
phenomena not yet understood by man but potentially
within the range of his comprehension: hence my
interpolation, between brackets, of the words "as yet".
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Note - 3981The mystery of sex runs through all creation,-in man, in
animal life, in vegetable life, and possibly in other
things of which we have no knowledge. Then there are
pairs of opposite forces in nature, e.g., positive and
negative electricity, etc. The atom itself consists of a
positively charged nucleus or proton, surrounded by
negatively charged electrons. The constitution of matter
itself is thus referred to pairs of opposite energies.
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Lit., "who has created all the pairs out of whatever the earth produces, and out of themselves, and out of that of which they have no knowledge": a reference to the polarity evident in all creation, both animate and inanimate, which expresses itself in the existence of antithetic and yet complementary forces, like the sexuality in human beings, animals and plants, light and darkness, heat and cold, positive and negative magnetism and electricity, the positive and negative charges (protons and electrons) in the structure of the atom, and so forth. (It is to be borne in mind that the noun zawj denotes both "a pair" and "one of a pair", as explained in note [7] on {13:3.}) The mention of "that of which they have no knowledge" evidently relates to things or phenomena not yet understood by man but potentially within the range of his comprehension: hence my interpolation, between brackets, of the words "as yet". |
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The mystery of sex runs through all creation,-in man, in animal life, in vegetable life, and possibly in other things of which we have no knowledge. Then there are pairs of opposite forces in nature, e.g., positive and negative electricity, etc. The atom itself consists of a positively charged nucleus or proton, surrounded by negatively charged electrons. The constitution of matter itself is thus referred to pairs of opposite energies. |
