فُصِّلَت : ١١

  • ثُمَّ Then
  • ٱسۡتَوَىٰٓ He directed (Himself)
  • إِلَى towards
  • ٱلسَّمَآءِ the heaven
  • وَهِيَ while it (was)
  • دُخَانٞ smoke
  • فَقَالَ and He said
  • لَهَا to it
  • وَلِلۡأَرۡضِ and to the earth
  • ٱئۡتِيَا Come both of you
  • طَوۡعًا willingly
  • أَوۡ or
  • كَرۡهٗا unwillingly
  • قَالَتَآ They both said
  • أَتَيۡنَا We come
  • طَآئِعِينَ willingly
Then He directed Himself1 to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come [into being],2 willingly or by compulsion." They said, "We have come willingly."
Footnotes
1 See footnote to 2:19.
2 Literally, "become" or "do [as commanded]."
Then He turned to the sky when it was smoke, [consisting of] rising vapours, and He said to it and to the earth, "Come both of you, to what I desire from you, willingly, or unwillingly!" (taw'an aw karhan, their [syntactical] locus is that of a circumstantial qualifier, in other words, '[Come] being obedient or coerced'). They said, "We come, together with all those inhabiting us, willingly!" (taa'i'eena mainly indicates masculine rational beings; it may also be that they are referred to in this way because they are being addressed thus).