Ash-Shu'araa 26:63
The Poets · ayah 63 of 227
فَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنِ ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْبَحْرَ ۖ فَٱنفَلَقَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ فِرْقٍۢ كَٱلطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
Faawhayna ila moosaani idrib biAAasaka albahra fanfalaqafakana kullu firqin kattawdi alAAatheem
"Then We inspired to Moses, "Strike with your staff the sea," and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"and We revealed to Moses: ‘Strike the sea with your staff.’ It parted- each side like a mighty mountain-"
Pickthall (classic)+
"Then We inspired Moses, saying: Smite the sea with thy staff. And it parted, and each part was as a mountain vast."
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Then We told Moses by inspiration: "Strike the sea with thy rod." So it divided, and each separate part became like the huge, firm mass of a mountain."