Half of it – or subtract from it a little (Al-Muzzammil [73] : 3)
1 Mufti Taqi Usmani
-half of it, or make it a little less,
2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
˹pray˺ half the night, or a little less,
3 Ruwwad Translation Center
half of it, or a little less,
4 A. J. Arberry
(a half of it, or diminish a little,
5 Abdul Haleem
half, or a little less,
6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi
A half thereof, or abate a little thereof,
7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Half of it,- or a little less,
8 Abul Ala Maududi
half of it, or reduce it a little;
9 Ahmed Ali
A half of it or a little less
10 Ahmed Raza Khan
For half the night, or reduce some from it.
11 Ali Quli Qarai
a half, or reduce a little from that
12 Ali Ünal
Half of it, or lessen it a little;
13 Amatul Rahman Omar
Half of it or you may however reduce it a little,
14 English Literal
Its half/middle or reduce/decrease from it little
15 Faridul Haque
For half the night, or reduce some from it.
16 Hamid S. Aziz
Half of it, or lessen it a little
17 Hilali & Khan
Half of it, or a little less than that,
18 Maulana Mohammad Ali
Surely We shall charge thee with a weighty word.
19 Mohammad Habib Shakir
Half of it, or lessen it a little,
20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
A half thereof, or abate a little thereof
21 Muhammad Sarwar
(Worship Him) for more or less than half of the night
22 Qaribullah & Darwish
half the night, or a little less
23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Half of it or less than that, a little.
24 Wahiduddin Khan
It may be half the night or a little less than that
25 Talal Itani
For half of it, or reduce it a little.
26 Tafsir jalalayn
a half of it (nisfahu substitutes for qallan, with `little' [being little by] taking into account the whole [night]), or reduce of it, of the half, a little, up to a third,