Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

His embrace is an abyss.

فَاُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌۜ
Faommuhu hawiya
#wordmeaningroot
1fa-ummuhuHis abodeامم
2hāwiyatun(will be the) Pitهوي
  • Aisha Bewley

    his motherland is Hawiya.

  • Progressive Muslims

    His destiny is the lowest.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    He will be embraced by an Abyss.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    His embrace is an abyss.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    His destiny is the lowest.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    His destiny is the lowest.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    His destiny is lowly.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Will have the Abyss for abode.

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

    His refuge will be an abyss.

  • Muhammad Asad

    shall be engulfed by an abyss.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    his shall be the deep pit for a dwelling.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Will be fostered by the deep bottomless abyss;

  • Bijan Moeinian

    He will be sent to a pit in the Hell.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    He will have his home in Hâwiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    their home will be the abyss.

  • Taqi Usmani

    -his abode will be Abyss.

  • Abdul Haleem

    will have the Bottomless Pit for his home––

  • Arthur John Arberry

    shall plunge in the womb of the Pit.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    his dwelling shall be the pit of hell.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    His mother will be the Bereft and Hungry One.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then his home is the bottom of Hell (Literally: his mother is tumbling into Hell).

  • George Sale

    his dwelling shall be the pit of hell.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Will have his home in a pit (of Fire).

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    The abyss (- Gehenna) shall then be a (nursing) mother to him (till the souls are completely cleansed of the taint of sin and they are reborn).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    his home will be the Abyss.