Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Oh, that when it reaches the throat!

فَلَوْلَٓا اِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْحُلْقُومَۙ
Falawla itha balaghati alhulqoom
#wordmeaningroot
1falawlāThen why not
2idhāwhen
3balaghatiit reachesبلغ
4l-ḥul'qūmathe throatحلق
  • Aisha Bewley

    Why then, when death reaches his throat

  • Progressive Muslims

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Why, then, as the last breath comes up to the throat,

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Oh, that when it reaches the throat!

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    When the time comes and it (your soul) reaches your throat -

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then how is it that when the (dying) breath is withdrawn into the throat (and rattles),

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

    Then why, when the soul at death reaches the throat

  • Muhammad Asad

    Why, then, when comes up to the throat ,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Why, then, when the soul leaps up to the throat,

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    So, what about the moment of the encounter with death when the soul is on its way out and it makes a rattle in the throat,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When the soul reaches the throat.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat,-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Why then ˹are you helpless˺ when the soul ˹of a dying person˺ reaches ˹their˺ throat,

  • Taqi Usmani

    So why (do you) not (intervene) when the soul (of a dying person) reaches the throat,

  • Abdul Haleem

    When the soul of a dying man comes up to his throat

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Why, but when the soul leaps to the throat of the dying

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Why then - when it comes up to the throat,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Why then do you not (intervene) when the soul comes up to the throat (of a dying person),

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then had it been that, when (the self) (i. e., the self of the dying person) reaches the gullet (of the dying)-

  • George Sale

    When the soul of a dying person cometh up to his throat,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Why, then, when the soul (of the dying person) reaches the throat,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    So when it reaches the throat