Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Do they who plot evil deeds feel secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not come upon them whence they perceive not,

اَفَاَمِنَ الَّذ۪ينَ مَكَرُوا السَّيِّـَٔاتِ اَنْ يَخْسِفَ اللّٰهُ بِهِمُ الْاَرْضَ اَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَۙ
Afaamina allatheena makaroo assayyi-atian yakhsifa Allahu bihimu al-arda aw ya/tiyahumualAAathabu min haythu la yashAAuroon
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1afa-aminaDo then feel secureامن
2alladhīnathose who
3makarūplottedمكر
4l-sayiātithe evil deedsسوا
5anthat
6yakhsifaAllah will caveخسف
7l-lahuAllah will cave
8bihimuwith them
9l-arḍathe earthارض
10awor
11yatiyahumuwill come to themاتي
12l-ʿadhābuthe punishmentعذب
13minfrom
14ḥaythuwhereحيث
15not
16yashʿurūnathey perceiveشعر
  • Aisha Bewley

    Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon them from where they least expect?

  • Progressive Muslims

    Have those who schemed evil guaranteed that God will not make the Earth swallow them, or the retribution come to them from where they do not expect

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Can they who devise evil schemes ever feel sure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that suffering will not befall them in ways they could least anticipate? (Such people indeed are going down in their "Self" development).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Do they who plot evil deeds feel secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not come upon them whence they perceive not,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Have those who schemed evil guaranteed that God will not make the earth swallow them, or the retribution come to them from where they do not expect?

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Have those who schemed evil guaranteed that God will not make the earth swallow them, or the retribution come to them from where they do not expect?

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Did those who scheme evil schemes guarantee that GOD will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the retribution will not come to them when they least expect it?

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Have the plotters of mischief become unafraid that God will not split the earth to swallow them, or that punishment will not fall upon them from somewhere they do not (even) suspect?

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

    Then, do those who have planned evil deeds feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive?

  • Muhammad Asad

    Can, then, they who devise evil schemes ever feel sure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that suffering will not befall them without their perceiving whence ? -

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Are they who plan ill-deeds then secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the doom will not come on them whence they know not?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Do those who have been devising evil plans (against the mission of the Messenger) feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that chastisement will not come upon them from a direction that they will not even be able to imagine;

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And now, do the infidels take their cunning for a sinister and crooked wisdom fraught with mischief and feel secure against Allah's wrath which may speak thunder. It may cause the earth to sink under their feet and assert them as her own, or that they unexpectedly be seized with a calamity from whence they never expected or perceived!

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Do those who oppose the Message with their evil behaviors (exemplified in persecuting the Muslims) have any guarantee that God will not let the earth to swallow them or that their punishment will not catch up with them when they least expect it?

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Do then those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allâh will not sink them into the earth, or that the torment will not seize them from directions they perceive not?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Do then those who devise evil (plots) feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up, or that the Wrath will not seize them from directions they little perceive?-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Do those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them? Or that the torment will not come upon them in ways they cannot comprehend?

  • Taqi Usmani

    Do those who contrive evil plots feel immune from that Allah makes them sink into the earth, or from that the punishment comes to them from where they would not perceive,

  • Abdul Haleem

    Are those who plan evil so sure that God will not make the earth swallow them up, that punishment will not come on them from some unimagined direction,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Do they feel secure, those who devise evil things, that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the chastisement will not come upon them, from whence they are not aware?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Are those who were so crafty in evil sure that God will not cleave open the earth with them, or bring them torment from whence they cannot perceive,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Are those, who devise evil plots, secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up, or that His Wrath will not seize them from whence they cannot perceive.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    So, are the ones who have schemed odious (deeds) secure that Allah will (not) cause the earth to cave in with them? Or that the torment will not come up to them from where they are not aware?

  • George Sale

    Are they who have plotted evil against their prophet secure, that God will not cause the earth to cleave under them, or that a punishment will not come upon them, from whence they do not expect;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then do those who make up evil (plots) feel safe that Allah will not make the earth to swallow them up, or that the Anger (of Allah) will not catch up with them from directions they are not aware of?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Do they, who have been hatching evil plots (against you), feel secure that Allâh will not abase them in this very earth and that punishment will not befall them from quarters they perceive not.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Do those who make evil schemes feel secure that Allah will not make the earth swallow them, or the punishment will not overtake them whence they are not aware?