Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

“Drawn nigh has the Hour, and the moon is split asunder!”

اِقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ
Iqtarabati assaAAatu wanshaqqaalqamar
#wordmeaningroot
1iq'tarabatiHas come nearقرب
2l-sāʿatuthe Hourسوع
3wa-inshaqqaand has splitشقق
4l-qamaruthe moonقمر
  • Aisha Bewley

    The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split.

  • Progressive Muslims

    The Hour draws near, and the moon is breached.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    The Hour of Revolution is fast approaching. And the moon bearing banner is torn asunder.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    “Drawn nigh has the Hour, and the moon is split asunder!”

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    The Hour draws near, and the moon is breached.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The moment drew near, and the moon was split.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The Hour has come closer, and the moon has split.,

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    THE HOUR HAS come and split is the moon.

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

    The Hour has come near, and the moon has split .

  • Muhammad Asad

    THE LAST HOUR draws near, and the moon is split asunder!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    The Hour of Resurrection drew near and the moon split asunder.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    The final hour, (that is the Day of Judgment), is drawing near and the moon will be cleft asunder, lose orbit and be disrupted.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The hour (of judgment) approaches as moon is being split.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    The Hour has drawn near and the moon was split ˹in two˺.

  • Taqi Usmani

    The Hour (of doom) has drawn near, and the moon has split asunder.

  • Abdul Haleem

    The Hour draws near; the moon is split in two.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    The Hour has drawn nigh: the moon is split.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    The Hour draws nigh, and the moon is split asunder.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    The hour drew nigh (or is nigh) and the moon was rent in twain (or is rent).

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    The Hour (The Arabic noun is feminine) has drawn near, and the moon (The Arabic noun is masculine) is cloven.

  • George Sale

    The hour of judgment approacheth; and the moon hath been split in sunder:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    The Hour (of Judgment) has drawn nearer, and the moon has been torn apart (cleft asunder. )

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    The Hour (of doom of the enemies of the Prophet) has drawn nigh and (to indicate it) the moon is rent asunder.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    The Hour has drawn near and the moon is split.