17:12 wa ja'Alnal layla wan nahaara aayatayn* fa maHawnaa aayatal layli wa ja'Alnaa aayatan nahaari mubSiratal li tabtaguu faDlam mir rab-bikum wa li ta'Ålamuu 'Adadas siniyna wal Hisaab* wa kul-la shay'in faS-Salnaahu tafSiylaa

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
And We created the night and the day as two signs - We therefore kept the sign of the night indistinct, and the sign of the day visible - so that you may seek the munificence of your Lord, and know the calculation of the years, and the accounting; and We have explained all things in detail, distinctively.

Yusuf Ali:
We have made the Night and the Day as two (of Our) Signs: the Sign of the Night have We obscured, while the Sign of the Day We have made to enlighten you; that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the number and count of the years: all things have We explained in detail.

Pickthal:
And We appoint the night and the day two portents. Then We make dark the portent of the night, and We make the portent of the day sight-giving, that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the computation of the years, and the reckoning; and everything have We expounded with a clear expounding.