Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And drink as the thirst-wracked camels drink.

فَشَارِبُونَ شُرْبَ الْه۪يمِۜ
Fashariboona shurba alheem
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1fashāribūnaAnd will drinkشرب
2shur'ba(as) drinkingشرب
3l-hīmi(of) the thirsty camelsهيم
  • Aisha Bewley

    slurping like thirst-crazed camels.

  • Progressive Muslims

    "So you will drink like thirsty camels!"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And indeed drink as the camel with false thirst drinks. " (Greed could never give you inner contentment (26:225), (102:1-2).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And drink as the thirst-wracked camels drink.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    "So you will drink like diseased camels!"

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    "So you will drink like thirsty camels!"

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    "Then adding drinks of sand."

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Lapping it up like female camels raging of thirst with disease. "

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

    And will drink as the drinking of thirsty camels.

  • Muhammad Asad

    drink it as the most insatiably thirsty camels drink!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Drinking even as the camel drinketh.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    drinking it as thirsty camels do."

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    " The sensation of thirst shall force you to drink more but like unhealthy camels, you shall be always thirsty".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    … like a thirsty camel. "

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    "And you will drink (that) like thirsty camels!"

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "Indeed ye shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!"

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    and you will drink ˹it˺ like thirsty camels do."

  • Taqi Usmani

    and to drink like camels suffering from the disease of over-thirst.

  • Abdul Haleem

    lapping it like thirsty camels.’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    lapping it down like thirsty camels. '

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and drink as drinks the thirsty camel.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    "And drink as drinks the thirsty camel. "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    So you will be drinking (like) the drinking of diseased camels wandering with thirst. "

  • George Sale

    and ye shall drink as a thirsty camel drinketh.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    "Indeed you shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!"

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Lapping it down like the lapping of the camels that suffer from insatiable thirst.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    drinking like thirsty camels. ’