Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

So how will it be when the angels take them, striking their faces and their backs?

فَكَيْفَ اِذَا تَوَفَّتْهُمُ الْمَلٰٓئِكَةُ يَضْرِبُونَ وُجُوهَهُمْ وَاَدْبَارَهُمْ
Fakayfa itha tawaffat-humu almala-ikatuyadriboona wujoohahum waadbarahum
#wordmeaningroot
1fakayfaThen howكيف
2idhāwhen
3tawaffathumutake them in deathوفي
4l-malāikatuthe Angelsملك
5yaḍribūnastrikingضرب
6wujūhahumtheir facesوجه
7wa-adbārahumand their backsدبر
  • Aisha Bewley

    How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their faces and their backs?

  • Progressive Muslims

    So how will it be when the Angels put them to death, striking their faces and their backs

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Then how will it be when the angels gather them in death, smiting their faces and backs? (They leave the world in emotional agony for not having readied themselves for the life to come).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    So how will it be when the angels take them, striking their faces and their backs?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    So how will it be when their lives are terminated by the angels, while striking their faces and their backs?

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    So how will it be when the controllers put them to death, striking their faces and their backs?

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    How will it be for them when the angels put them to death? They will beat them on their faces and their rear ends.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    How will it be when the angels draw out their souls striking their faces and their backs?

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

    Then how when the angels take them in death, striking their faces and their backs?

  • Muhammad Asad

    hence, how when the angels gather them in death, striking their faces and their backs?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Then how (will it be with them) when the angels gather them, smiting their faces and their backs!

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    But how will they fare when angels will take their souls at death and will carry them, striking their faces and backs?*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    How will they react when the angels of death besiege them all about to disembody their souls and descend violently upon them striking their faces and their backs?

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When the Angles take their souls, they will beat them on their faces and kick their rear ends.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then how (will it be) when the angels will take their souls at death, smiting their faces and their backs?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    But how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, and smite their faces and their backs?

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Then how ˹horrible˺ will it be when the angels take their souls, beating their faces and backs!

  • Taqi Usmani

    So, how (miserable) will they be when the angels will exact their souls, smiting their faces and their backs?

  • Abdul Haleem

    How will they feel when the angels take them in death and beat their faces and their backs

  • Arthur John Arberry

    How shall it be, when the angels take them, beating their faces and their backs?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    How will it be when the angels take their souls, smiting their faces and their backs?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    But how will it be when the angels take their souls in death and smite their faces and their backs.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    So how will it be when the Angels take them up, striking their faces and their hind parts?

  • George Sale

    How therefore will it be with them, when the angels shall cause them to die, and shall strike their faces, and their backs?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, and strike their faces and their backs?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    But how (will they fare), when the angels cause them to die, smiting them on their faces and their backs?

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    But how will it be when the angels take them away, striking their faces and their backs?!