ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء : ٣٣

  • وَهُوَ And He
  • ٱلَّذِي (is) the One Who
  • خَلَقَ created
  • ٱلَّيۡلَ the night
  • وَٱلنَّهَارَ and the day
  • وَٱلشَّمۡسَ and the sun
  • وَٱلۡقَمَرَۖ and the moon
  • كُلّٞ each
  • فِي in
  • فَلَكٖ an orbit
  • يَسۡبَحُونَ floating
And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each (kullun, the nunation of this [particle] stands in place of the second noun [of the genitive construction] that would have been alshams, 'the sun', or al-qamar, 'the moon', or their subsidiaries, namely, al-nujoom, 'the stars') in an orbit, a circular [one] like a mill in the sky, swimming, moving with speed, like a swimmer in water. In order to effect the analogy with the latter, the plural person [of the verb employed] for rational beings is used.