Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

When its most wretched was sent forth.

اِذِ انْبَعَثَ اَشْقٰيهَاۙۖ
Ithi inbaAAatha ashqaha
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1idhiWhen
2inbaʿatha(was) sent forthبعث
3ashqāhā(the) most wicked of themشقو
  • Aisha Bewley

    when the worst of them rushed ahead,

  • Progressive Muslims

    They followed the worst amongst them.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Behold, the most forward among them was picked up for defiance.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    When its most wretched was sent forth.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    They followed the worst among them.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    They followed the worst amongst them.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They followed the worst among them.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    When among them the great wretch arose,

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

    When the most wretched of them was sent forth.

  • Muhammad Asad

    when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward ,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When the basest of them broke forth

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    when their arch-criminal rose up in rage.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And there, did their most wicked leader jump at the occasion to defy Allah's ordinance and prompt the aggression.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When the most wicked person among them went to kill the she camel (that they themselves had asked as a miracle. )

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    when the most wicked of them was roused ˹to kill the she-camel˺.

  • Taqi Usmani

    when rose up the one who was most wretched of them.

  • Abdul Haleem

    when the most wicked man among them rose .

  • Arthur John Arberry

    when the most wretched of them uprose,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    when their wretch rose up

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    When the basest of them rose up

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    As the most wretched of them deputed himself.

  • George Sale

    When the wretch among them was sent to slay the camel;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Look, the most wicked man among them was chosen (for the crime)

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (It was) when the wretched-most among them arose,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    when the most wretched of them rose up.