Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

But the Blast seized them in the morning,

فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ مُصْبِح۪ينَۙ
Faakhathat-humu assayhatumusbiheen
#wordmeaningroot
1fa-akhadhathumuBut seized themاخذ
2l-ṣayḥatuthe awful cryصيح
3muṣ'biḥīna(at) early morningصبح
  • Aisha Bewley

    but the Great Blast seized hold of them in the morning,

  • Progressive Muslims

    So the scream took them in the morning.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And so the blast (of Our Requital) overtook them early in the morning.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    But the Blast seized them in the morning,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    So the scream took them in the morning.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    But the blast took them in the morning.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The disaster hit them in the morning.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    But they were seized by the mighty blast towards the morning;

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

    But the shriek seized them at early morning.

  • Muhammad Asad

    and so the blast overtook them at early morn,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    But the (Awful) Cry overtook them at the morning hour,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Then the Blast caught them in the morning

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Nonetheless a single cry* from heaven's realm stirred up a merciless rumbling earthly convulsion which overtook them by day light.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Then a rumbling overtook them in the morning (that made their secure houses of no protection to them. )

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    But As-Saihah (torment - awful cry) overtook them in the early morning (of the fourth day of their promised punishment days).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning,

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    But the ˹mighty˺ blast overtook them in the morning,

  • Taqi Usmani

    Then, the Cry seized them by the morning.

  • Abdul Haleem

    the blast overwhelmed them early in the morning.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and the Cry seized them in the morning;

  • E. Henry Palmer

    But the noise caught them in the morn;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    But the mighty blast seized them in the morning;

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    So the Shout took them (away) in the (early) morning.

  • George Sale

    But a terrible noise from heaven assailed them in the morning:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    But the blast (explosion) overtook them on, early in the morning,

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    But the dreadful punishment overtook them in the morning.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    So the Cry seized them at dawn,