Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

So the earthquake seized them; and morning found them lying prone in their home,

فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَ
Faakhathat-humu arrajfatu faasbahoofee darihim jathimeen
#wordmeaningroot
1fa-akhadhathumuSo seized themاخذ
2l-rajfatuthe earthquakeرجف
3fa-aṣbaḥūthen they becameصبح
4fīin
5dārihimtheir homesدور
6jāthimīnafallen proneجثم
  • Aisha Bewley

    So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.

  • Progressive Muslims

    The Earthquake took them, so they became lifeless in their homes.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    (In their life of luxury, like other strong nations they felt invincible. ) The destruction came from under their feet. A powerful earthquake annihilated them, leaving them lifeless in their homes.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    So the earthquake seized them; and morning found them lying prone in their home,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    The earthquake took them, thus they became lifeless in their home.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The earthquake took them, so they fell motionless in their homes.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Consequently, the quake annihilated them, leaving them dead in their homes.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then they were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned on the ground in their homes in the morning.

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

    So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home fallen prone.

  • Muhammad Asad

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

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them,* so that they lay prostrate in their dwellings.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    There, did the destructive convulsion of the earth's surface seize them and reduced them to a useless form and laid them prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Eventually they were killed by a sudden catastrophe, while resting at home.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    So the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning!

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Then an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them, and they fell lifeless in their homes.

  • Taqi Usmani

    So, the earthquake seized them, and they were (found dead) in their homes, fallen on their faces.

  • Abdul Haleem

    An earthquake seized them: by the next morning they were lying dead in their homes.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Then the earthquake seized them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then the Commotion took them (away), and so (in the morning) they became cowering (bodies) in their residence.

  • George Sale

    Whereupon a terrible noise from heaven assailed them; and in the morning they were found in their dwellings prostrate on their breasts and dead.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    So the earthquake overtook them while they were not aware, and they lay on their face down in their homes in the morning!

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    So the earthquake seized them and the morning found them lying prostrate on the ground in their habitations.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    So the earthquake seized them, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes.