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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:21:16 –

And We did not create the heaven and earth and that between them in play.

And We did not create the heaven and the earth and all that is between them, playing, being frivolous, but to indicate Our power and to benefit Our servants.

القرآن:٢١:١٦ –

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاءَ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ

{وما خلقنا السماء والأرض وما بينهما لاعبين} عابثين بل دالين على قدرتنا ونافعين عبادنا.

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quran:44:38 –

And We did not create the heavens and earth and that between them in play.

And We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, ˹intending˺ to play, by creating all that (lā‘ibīna, ‘to play’, is a circumstantial qualifier).

القرآن:٤٤:٣٨ –

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ

{وما خلقنا السماوات والأرض وما بينهما لاعبين} بخلق ذلك، حال.