Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And the Blast seized those who did wrong; and morning found them lying prone in their homes

وَاَخَذَ الَّذ۪ينَ ظَلَمُوا الصَّيْحَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دِيَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَۙ
Waakhatha allatheena thalamooassayhatu faasbahoo fee diyarihimjathimeen
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1wa-akhadhaAnd seizedاخذ
2alladhīnathose who
3ẓalamūwrongedظلم
4l-ṣayḥatuthe thunderous blastصيح
5fa-aṣbaḥūthen they becameصبح
6in
7diyārihimtheir homesدور
8jāthimīnafallen proneجثم
  • Aisha Bewley

    The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And those who wronged were taken by the scream, thus they lay motionless in their homes.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    (Saleh and His followers moved out of the town while the disbelievers stayed back with their mockery. ) And a tremendous blast overtook the oppressors, and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And the Blast seized those who did wrong; and morning found them lying prone in their homes

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And those who had wronged were taken by the scream, thus they became lifeless in their homes.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Those who wronged were taken by the scream, thus they lay motionless in their homes.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Those who transgressed were annihilated by the disaster, leaving them in their homes, dead.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    The sinners were seized by a blast from heaven, and lay overturned in their homes in the morning,

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes fallen prone

  • Muhammad Asad

    And the blast overtook those who had been bent on evildoing: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And the (awful) Cry overtook those who did wrong, so that morning found them prostrate in their dwellings,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    And the Blast overtook those who were wont to do wrong, and then they lay lifeless in their homes

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Direful was the one cry from heaven's realm, it stirred up a merciless blast which overtook the wrongful of actions. There, they were reduced to a useless form laying prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes

  • Bijan Moeinian

    As for those who were unjust a powerful blast overtook them in their houses and instantly killed them.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And As-Saihah (torment - awful cry) overtook the wrong-doers, so they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes,

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    The (mighty) Blast overtook the wrong-doers, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning,-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And the ˹mighty˺ blast overtook the wrongdoers, so they fell lifeless in their homes,

  • Taqi Usmani

    And those who transgressed were caught by the Cry, and they were found dead in their homes, fallen on their knees,

  • Abdul Haleem

    The blast struck the evildoers and they lay dead in their homes,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    And the evildoers were seized by the Cry, and morning found them in their habitations fallen prostrate

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And the noise caught those who had done wrong; and on the morrow they were lying corpses in their houses,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And when Our commandment came to pass, We saved Salih, and those who believed with him, by Our mercy, from the ignominy of that day. Verily, your Lord He is Powerful and Mighty.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And the Shout took away (the ones) who did injustice, so (in the morning) they became cowering (bodies) in their residences.

  • George Sale

    But a terrible noise from heaven assailed those who had acted unjustly; and in the morning they were found in their houses, lying dead and prostrate;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And the (mighty) explosion (an awful cry) came over the wrong doers, and they lay in their homes dead, before the morning,

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And a thunderbolt (caused by an earthquake) seized those who had acted unjustly. And the next morning found them lying prostrate in their habitations,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    The Cry seized those who were wrongdoers, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes,