Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
AND [know that] We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in mere idle play
Arthur John Arberry
We created not the heaven and the earth, and whatsoever between them is, as playing
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between
Arabic
وَمَا خَلَقۡنَا ٱلسَّمَاۤءَ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمَا بَیۡنَهُمَا لَـٰعِبِینَ ١٦
Transliteration (2021)
wamā khalaqnā l-samāa wal-arḍa wamā baynahumā lāʿibīn