Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And the pains of childbirth brought her to the trunk of the date-palm. She said: “Would that I had died before this and been utterly forgotten!”

فَاَجَٓاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ اِلٰى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِۚ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَن۪ي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هٰذَا وَكُنْتُ نَسْياً مَنْسِياًّ
Faajaaha almakhadu ilajithAAi annakhlati qalat ya laytaneemittu qabla hatha wakuntu nasyan mansiyya
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1fa-ajāahāThen drove herجيا
2l-makhāḍuthe pains of childbirthمخض
3ilāto
4jidh'ʿi(the) trunkجذع
5l-nakhlati(of) the date-palmنخل
6qālatShe saidقول
7yālaytanīO! I wish
8mittuI (had) diedموت
9qablabeforeقبل
10hādhāthis
11wakuntuand I wasكون
12nasyan(in) oblivionنسي
13mansiyyanforgottenنسي
  • Aisha Bewley

    The pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said, ‘Oh if only I had died before this time and was something discarded and forgotten!’

  • Progressive Muslims

    Then the birth pains came to her, by the trunk of a palm tree. She said: "I wish I had died before this, and became totally forgotten!"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And when labor pains drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed, "Ah, I wish I had died before this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And the pains of childbirth brought her to the trunk of the date-palm. She said: “Would that I had died before this and been utterly forgotten!”

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Then the birth pains came to her, by the trunk of a palm tree. She said: "I wish I had died before this, and became totally forgotten!"

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Then the birth pains came to her, by the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "I wish I had died before this, and became totally forgotten!"

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The birth process came to her by the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "(I am so ashamed;) I wish I were dead before this happened, and completely forgotten."

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    The birth pangs led her to the trunk of a date-palm tree. "Would that I had died before this, " she said, "and become a thing forgotten, unremembered."

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

    And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

  • Muhammad Asad

    And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed: "Oh, would that I had died ere this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten!

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Then the birth pangs drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree and she said: "Oh, would that I had died before this and had been all forgotten."

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Just to be confronted with the onset of labour, and there, the severe labour pains drove her to the nearby trunk of a palm-tree. Overwhelmed with fear mingled with grief she exclaimed: "I wish, I had died long ago and were consigned to oblivion".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    She went under a date-palm tree to give birth. The pain of the moment made her to cry: "I wish I were dead, forgotten, and out of memories."

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!"

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Then the pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She cried, "Alas! I wish I had died before this, and was a thing long forgotten!"

  • Taqi Usmani

    Then the labour pains brought her to the trunk of a palm-tree. She said "O that I would have died before this, and would have been something gone, forgotten."

  • Abdul Haleem

    and, when the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree, she exclaimed, ‘I wish I had been dead and forgotten long before all this!’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    And the birthpangs surprised her by the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, 'Would I had died ere this, and become a thing forgotten!'

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And the labour pains came upon her at the trunk of a palm tree, and she said, 'O that I had died before this, and been forgotten out of mind!'

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    So she conceived him, and she retired with him into a remote place.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then the birthpangs made her come to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, "Oh, would I had died before this and become a thing forgotten, completely forgotten!"

  • George Sale

    and the pains of childbirth came upon her near the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, would to God I had died before this, and had become a thing forgotten, and lost in oblivion!

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And the pains of childbirth took her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her pain): "Oh! If I had died before this! If I was a thing forgotten and not (even) seen!"

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (At the time of the delivery of the child) the throes of child birth drove her to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, `Oh! would that I had become unconscious before this and had become a thing gone and forgotten.'

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    The birth pangs brought her to the trunk of a date palm. She said, ‘I wish I had died before this and become a forgotten thing, beyond recall.’