Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Then they denied him, and the earthquake seized them, and morning found them lying prone in their home.

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَۘ
Fakaththaboohu faakhathat-humuarrajfatu faasbahoo fee darihim jathimeen
#wordmeaningroot
1fakadhabūhuBut they denied himكذب
2fa-akhadhathumuso seized themاخذ
3l-rajfatuthe earthquakeرجف
4fa-aṣbaḥūand they becameصبح
5in
6dārihimtheir homeدور
7jāthimīnafallen proneجثم
  • Aisha Bewley

    But they denied him so the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.

  • Progressive Muslims

    But they denied him, thus the Earthquake took them; they were then left dead in their homes.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    But they denied him. Thereupon a dreadful rainstorm and earthquake overtook them, and morning found them dead, prone in their homes. (26:189).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Then they denied him, and the earthquake seized them, and morning found them lying prone in their home.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    But they denied him, so the earthquake took them; thus they became lifeless in their dwelling.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    But they denied him, thus the earthquake took them; they were then left dead in their homes.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They disbelieved him and, consequently, the earthquake annihilated them; they were left dead in their homes by morning.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    But they denied him and were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned in their homes in the morning.

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

    But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home fallen prone.

  • Muhammad Asad

    But they gave him the lie. Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    But they denounced him as a liar.* So a mighty earthquake overtook them, and by the morning they lay overturned in their houses.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    But they accused him of falsehood and in consequence they were seized by the destructive convulsion of the earth's surface which reduced them into a useless form and laid them prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    They chose to disregard the message. Consequently I sent them a sever earthquake and by the morning they were all dead in their habitats.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And they belied him : so the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their dwellings.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    But they rejected him: Then the mighty Blast seized them, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    But they rejected him, so an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them and they fell lifeless in their homes.

  • Taqi Usmani

    So they gave the lie to him, then they were seized by the earthquake and they remained in their homes lying on their faces.

  • Abdul Haleem

    They rejected him and so the earthquake overtook them. When morning came, they were lying dead in their homes.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    But they cried lies to him; so the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    But they called him liar; and the convulsion seized them, and on the morrow they lay in their dwellings prone.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And unto Midian We sent their brother Shu'eyb, and he said, "My people, serve Allah, and fear the Last Day; and do not evil, making mischief in the land, (despoiling it). "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Yet they cried lies to him. Then the Commotion took them (away); so in the morning they became cowering (bodies) in their home-residence.

  • George Sale

    But they accused him of imposture; wherefore a storm from heaven assailed them, and in the morning they were found in their dwellings dead and prostrate.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And they rejected him: Then the mighty earthquake seized them, and they lay overcome (face down) in their homes by the morning.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    But (instead of obeying him) they cried him (-Shu`aib) lies. So they were caught in a violent earthquake and they became (corpses) laid down on their breasts on the ground in their dwellings.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    But they impugned him, whereupon the earthquake seized them, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes.