Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

The day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces: “Taste the touch of Saqar!”

يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِي النَّارِ عَلٰى وُجُوهِهِمْۜ ذُوقُوا مَسَّ سَقَرَ
Yawma yushaboona fee annariAAala wujoohihim thooqoo massa saqar
#wordmeaningroot
1yawma(The) Dayيوم
2yus'ḥabūnathey will be draggedسحب
3into
4l-nārithe Fireنور
5ʿalāon
6wujūhihimtheir facesوجه
7dhūqūTasteذوق
8massa(the) touchمسس
9saqara(of) Hell
  • Aisha Bewley

    on the Day that they are dragged face-first into the Fire: ‘Taste the scorching touch of Saqar!’

  • Progressive Muslims

    The Day when they will be dragged upon their faces into the Fire: "Taste the agony of the scorching heat!"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    On the Day when they shall be dragged through the Fire on their faces, "Taste you the touch of Blaze!" ('Wajh' = Face = Countenance = Whole being = Total personality. )

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    The day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces: “Taste the touch of Saqar!”

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    The Day when they will be dragged upon their faces into the Fire: "Taste the agony of the scorching heat!"

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The day when they will be dragged upon their faces into the fire: "Taste the agony of Saqar!"

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They will be dragged into the hellfire, forcibly. Suffer the agony of retribution.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    On that Day they will be dragged into the fire faces foremost, (and told:) "Taste the feel of Hell. "

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

    The Day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces , "Taste the touch of Saqar. "

  • Muhammad Asad

    On the Day when they shall be dragged into the fire on their faces, "Taste now the touch of hell-fire!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    On the day when they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces (it is said unto them): Feel the touch of hell.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    There shall come a Day when they will be dragged on their faces into the Fire and will be told: "Now taste the flame of Hell."

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    There shall come the Day when they are dragged on their faces and be told: " Now, feel the unbearable sensation coming over your bodies by being cast into Hell fire.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When they are thrown into fire, they will be told: Taste now the flame of Hell. "

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    The Day they will be dragged on their faces into the Fire (it will be said to them): "Taste you the touch of Hell!"

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    The Day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (they will hear:) "Taste ye the touch of Hell!"

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    On the Day they will be dragged into the Fire on their faces, ˹they will be told,˺ "Taste the touch of Hell!"

  • Taqi Usmani

    On the Day when they will be dragged into the Fire on their faces, (it will be said to them,) "Taste the touch of Hell."

  • Abdul Haleem

    on the Day when they are dragged on their faces in Hell. ‘Feel the touch of Hell.’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire: 'Taste now the touch of Sakar!'

  • E. Henry Palmer

    On the day when they shall be dragged to the fire upon their faces!- 'Taste ye the touch of hell. '

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    On the day when they shall be dragged upon their faces into the Fire, "Taste the touch of hell. "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    The Day (when) they are pulled into the Fire on their faces, (It will be said), "Taste (now) the touch of Saqar!" (The Scorching Fire)

  • George Sale

    On that day they shall be dragged into the fire on their faces; and it shall be said unto them, taste ye the touch of hell.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    The Day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (it will be said:) "You taste the touch of Hell!"

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    On that day they shall be dragged on their faces into the fire (of the battle, it will be said to them), `Suffer the smite of fire. '

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    The day when they are dragged into the Fire on their faces, ‘Taste the touch of hell!’