Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And the day the sky is rent asunder with the clouds, and the angels are sent down in successive descent,

وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّمَٓاءُ بِالْغَمَامِ وَنُزِّلَ الْمَلٰٓئِكَةُ تَنْز۪يلاً
Wayawma tashaqqaqu assamao bilghamamiwanuzzila almala-ikatu tanzeela
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1wayawmaAnd (the) Dayيوم
2tashaqqaquwill split openشقق
3l-samāuthe heavensسمو
4bil-ghamāmiwith the cloudsغمم
5wanuzzilaand (will be) sent downنزل
6l-malāikatuthe Angelsملك
7tanzīlandescendingنزل
  • Aisha Bewley

    the Day when Heaven is split apart in clouds, and the angels are sent down rank upon rank.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And the Day when the sky will be filled with clouds, and the Angels will be sent down in succession.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    The Day the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder, angels will be sent down, a grand descent in ranks.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And the day the sky is rent asunder with the clouds, and the angels are sent down in successive descent,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Andthe Day when the heaven will be filled with clouds, and the angels will be sent down in succession.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The day when the sky will be filled with clouds, and the controllers will be sent down in succession.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The heaven will break apart, into masses of clouds, and the angels will descend in multitudes.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    The day the heavens splits asunder with a dazzling white cloud gathering and the angels descend in a continuous stream,

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

    And the Day when the heaven will split open with clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent.

  • Muhammad Asad

    And on the Day on which the skies, together with the clouds, shall burst asunder, and the angels are made to descend in a mighty descent –

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    A day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    On that Day the sky shall be rent asunder by a cloud and a whole cavalcade of angels will be made to descend.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    The Day shall come when the heavens break into fissures and so do the cumulative clouds -which have gathered from the immense explosions and disruption emblematic of the Final Hour- and the angels are sent down in rows and ranks.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    On that Day, the sky will break apart and the angels will descend in multitude from the cloud.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And (remember) the Day when the heaven shall be rent asunder with clouds, and the angels will be sent down, with a grand descending.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    The Day the heaven shall be rent asunder with clouds, and angels shall be sent down, descending (in ranks),-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    ˹Watch for˺ the Day the heavens will burst with clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive ranks.

  • Taqi Usmani

    The Day the sky will break open with a cloud, and the angels will be sent down in a majestic descent,

  • Abdul Haleem

    On the Day when the sky and its clouds are split apart and the angels sent down in streams,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Upon the day that heaven is split asunder with the clouds and the angels are sent down in majesty,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    The day the heavens shall be cleft asunder with the clouds, and the angels shall be sent down descending.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    The companions of the Garden on that day shall be in a better abiding-place and a better noonday rest.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And the Day that the heaven is cloven with the mist and the Angels are sent down, a (successive) sending down.

  • George Sale

    On that day the heaven shall be cloven in sunder by the clouds, and the angels shall be sent down, descending visibly therein.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And the Day the heaven will be torn apart by clouds, and the angels shall be sent down, descending (in order and in grandeur)—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (Call to mind) the day when the heaven shall burst and melt into raining clouds and the angels shall be made to descend in large numbers;

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    The day when the sky with its clouds will split open, and the angels will be sent down descent,