Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

The day their tongues and their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they did:

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ اَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَاَيْد۪يهِمْ وَاَرْجُلُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Yawma tashhadu AAalayhim alsinatuhumwaaydeehim waarjuluhum bima kanoo yaAAmaloon
#wordmeaningroot
1yawma(On a) Dayيوم
2tashhaduwill bear witnessشهد
3ʿalayhimagainst them
4alsinatuhumtheir tonguesلسن
5wa-aydīhimand their handsيدي
6wa-arjuluhumand their feetرجل
7bimāfor what
8kānūthey usedكون
9yaʿmalūna(to) doعمل
  • Aisha Bewley

    on the Day when their tongues and hands and feet will testify against them about what they were doing.

  • Progressive Muslims

    On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them for what they used to do.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    (Suffering) on the Day when their tongues and their hands and their feet will testify against them about all that they did. (And a time will come when methods of investigation will become far advanced).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    The day their tongues and their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they did:

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them for what they used to do.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    On the day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them for what they used to do.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The day will come when their own tongues, hands, and feet will bear witness to everything they had done.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    The day their tongues and hands and feet bear witness to what they had done,

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

    On a Day when their tongues, their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.

  • Muhammad Asad

    on the Day when their own tongues and hands and feet will bear witness against them by all that they did!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    (Let them not be heedless of) the Day when their own tongues, their hands, and their feet shall all bear witness against them as to what they have been doing.21a

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    The Day shall come when their tongues, their hands and their feet shall have much to answer for against them and bear witness to their actions.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Such people should know that, on the Day of Judgment, their own tongues, hands, and legs will testify against them and reveal what they used to do.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs (or feet) will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their actions.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    on the Day their tongues, hands, and feet will testify against them for what they used to do.

  • Taqi Usmani

    on the Day when their tongues, their hands and their legs will testify against themselves of what they used to do.

  • Abdul Haleem

    on the Day when their own tongues, hands, and feet will testify against them about what they have done-

  • Arthur John Arberry

    on the day when their tongues, their hands and their feet shall testify against them touching that they were doing.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall bear witness against them of what they did,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Verily, those who slander (cast aspersions) on virtuous (or chaste) women who have been careless (indiscreet) but believing, shall be cursed in this world and the Hereafter; theirs will be an awful doom

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs will testify against them as to whatever they were doing,

  • George Sale

    One day their own tongues shall bear witness against them, and their hands, and their feet, concerning that which they have done.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs will bear witness (and speak out) against them about their actions.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    On the Day (of Requital) when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them for the (evil) deeds they used to do.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    on the day when witness shall be given against them by their tongues, their hands, and their feet concerning what they used to do.