Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And when one of them receives tidings of a female, his face darkens and he suppresses grief.

وَاِذَا بُشِّرَ اَحَدُهُمْ بِالْاُنْثٰى ظَلَّ وَجْهُهُ مُسْوَداًّ وَهُوَ كَظ۪يمٌۚ
Wa-itha bushshira ahaduhum bilonthathalla wajhuhu muswaddan wahuwa katheem
#wordmeaningroot
1wa-idhāAnd when
2bushirais given good newsبشر
3aḥaduhum(to) one of themاحد
4bil-unthāof a femaleانث
5ẓallaturnsظلل
6wajhuhuhis faceوجه
7mus'waddandarkسود
8wahuwaand he
9kaẓīmunsuppresses griefكظم
  • Aisha Bewley

    When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face darkens and he is furious.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And when one of them is given news of a female, his face becomes darkened and he is in grief!

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    So, whenever any of them is given the glad tiding of the birth of a daughter, his face darkens with sadness and anger.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And when one of them receives tidings of a female, his face darkens and he suppresses grief.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And when one of them is given news of a female, his face becomes darkened and he is in grief!

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    When one of them is given news of a female, his face becomes darkened and he is in grief!

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    When one of them gets a baby girl, his face becomes darkened with overwhelming grief.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Yet when news of the birth of a daughter reaches one of them, his face is darkened, and he is overwhelmed with silent grief,

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

    And when one of them is informed of a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.

  • Muhammad Asad

    for, whenever any of them is given the glad tiding of a girl, his face darkens, and he is filled with suppressed anger,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When if one of them receiveth tidings of the birth of a female, his face remaineth darkened, and he is wroth inwardly.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    When any of them is told about the birth of a female his face turns dark, and he is filled with suppressed anger,

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    The moment any of them hears the news of the birth of his own female child, his countenance at once speaks a different language, His eyes shrivel into darkness in his head and he falls into the darkness of dismay.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When one of them is given the good news of having a baby girl, his face changes the color and he becomes overwhelmed with the grief!

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And when the news of (the birth of) a female (child) is brought to any of them, his face becomes dark, and he is filled with inward grief!

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    When news is brought to one of them, of (the birth of) a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief!

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Whenever one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face grows gloomy, as he suppresses his rage.

  • Taqi Usmani

    When one of them is given the good news of a female child, his face becomes gloomy and he is choked with grief.

  • Abdul Haleem

    When one of them is given news of the birth of a baby girl, his face darkens and he is filled with gloom.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and when any of them is given the good tidings of a girl, his face is darkened and he chokes inwardly,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    When any one of them has tidings of a female child, his face is overclouded and black, and he has to keep back his wrath.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    When any one of them receives tidings of a female child, his face is over clouded and black, and he is filled with inner wrath.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And when one of them is given the tidings of (the birth) of a female, his face lingers blackened and he is ever-repressed (with sorrow).

  • George Sale

    And when any of them is told the news of the birth of a female, his face becometh black, and he is deeply afflicted:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And when news of a female (baby's birth) is taken to one of them, his face darkens (with sorrow), and he is filled with sadness inside!

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    When one of them is given the tidings (of the birth) of a female, his face clouds up and darkens (in sorrow) and he is full of grief and anger suppressed up.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    When one of them is brought the news of a female , his face becomes darkened and he chokes with suppressed agony.