<p>Translating metaphor is a thorny issue within translation studies in general, and within legal religious texts in particular. The present paper addresses translating Quranic explicit and implicit metaphors in legal and non-legal Quranic verses into English. It seeks to explore and analyse the most appropriate translation procedure(s) for translating Quranic explicit and implicit metaphors, which may ensure full conveyance of the ST image and explanation thereof. It uses the Quranic Arabic Corpus to compare and contrast seven translations of Quranic explicit and implicit metaphors in an attempt to find out the similarities and differences between them and the translation procedures adopted by each of them based on Newmark’s [3] types of procedures. The paper argues that one of the most appropriate translation procedures for translating Quranic explicit and implicit metaphors resides chiefly in a combination of literalism and sense-for-sense translation. This may also apply to the translation of the part of the ellipted vehicle mentioned in the verse if the implicit metaphor is personification-based. Such combination ensures keeping the source language image intact in the target text, while uncovering the sense thereof. This would facilitate comprehensibility of the Quranic translated metaphor and make it accessible to both the expert as well as the layman alike. This paper offers a baseline for translating Quranic explicit and implicit metaphors in legal and non-legal Quranic verses into English, which may have implications for translating Quranic explicit, implicit and other types of metaphor in legal and non-legal Quranic verses into other similar Endo-European languages.</p>