Muhammad Habib Shakir: Our word for a thing when We intend it, is only that We say to it, Be, and it is.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: For to anything which We have willed, We but say the word, "Be", and it is.
M.Pickthall: And Our word unto a thing, when We intend it, is only that We say unto it: Be! and it is.
Amatul Rahmân Omer: Our word to a thing when We intend it (to come into being) is only that We say to it, `Be´ and it comes to be.
Maulana Mohammad Ali: So that He might make manifest to them that about which they differ, and that those who disbelieve might know that they were liars.
