Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | with seven gates leading into it, each gate receiving its allotted share of sinners. |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | It hath seven gates, and each gate hath an appointed portion | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | To it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned | |
Shakir | | It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a separate party of them | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | it has seven gates: and each gate has a portion of them allotted to it | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | It has seven doors. Then, for every one, a door set apart, is for them. | |
| T.B.Irving | | It has seven gates; each gate will have a portion assigned from them." | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | It has seven gates, to each a group of them is designated.” | |
| Safi Kaskas | | There will be seven gates leading into Hell, each gate receiving its allotted share." | |
| Abdul Hye | | it (hell) has 7 gates; each gate will be assigned to a separate class (for sinners) from them. | |
| The Study Quran | | Seven gates it has, and for each gate is appointed a separate portion of them | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | "It has seven gates, for every gate will be an assigned segment from them." | |
Abdel Haleem | | with seven gates, each gate having its allotted share of them | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Unto it are seven portals; unto each portal is a Portion of them assigned | |
Ahmed Ali | | Which has several gates, and each gate is marked for every section of them." | |
Aisha Bewley | | It has seven gates and each gate has its allotted share. | |
Ali Ünal | | It has seven gates, with an appointed group of them for each gate | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | It has seven gates, and to each gate belongs a separate portion of them.&rsquo | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | It has seven gates (entrances); to each gate (entrance) is assigned a certain class (or portion)." | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | It has seven gates; and each gate has an appointed part (Literally: divided) | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | It has seven gates and each gate is assigned for a certain group of people | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | It has seven gates. For each gate there is a group apportioned from them | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | "With seven gates leading into it, each gate receiving its share of wrongdoers." (The Straight Path is one, while the wrong paths are numerous and each of them leads to Hell (30:30-31)) | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | To it are seven gates: For each of those gates there is a class (of sinners) assigned | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | It has seven gates; for every gate is of them a portion designated." | |
Farook Malik | | which has seven gates, each gate will be assigned to a separate group from among them." | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | It has seven gates, each for a different class of sinners | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | For it are seven (i.e., many) gates, for each gate (overhere is) an assigned class of those (sinners, transgressors, polytheists, pagans, disbelievers and those who did not respect the Oneness of Allah) | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | 'It has seven doors; for each door is an assigned class.' | |
Maududi | | There are seven gates in it, and to each gate a portion of them has been allotted | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | It has seven gates, and each gate is for an assigned portion of them | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | For there are seven gates, for each of those gates is a group assigned | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | with its seven gates, each gate receiving its allotted share.” | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | "Ithas seven gates, for every gate will be an assigned segment from them." | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | It has seven gates assigned separately to separate sections of them | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | “The Hell has seven gates; each welcoming a certain type of sinners.&rdquo | |
| Faridul Haque | | It has seven gates; for each gate is a portion assigned from them | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | It has seven gates, and through each gate a portion of them belong | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | It has seven gates. For each gate is an appointed portion of them | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | For it (are) seven doors/entrances, to each door/entrance from them (is an) apportioned/divided part/portion | |
Sher Ali | | It has seven gates, and each gate has a portion of them allotted to it | |
Rashad Khalifa | | "It will have seven gates. Each gate will get a specific share of them." | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | It has seven entrances. For each entrance there is an appointed portion of them. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | `It has seven gates. Each gate shall have an assigned portion of them (who have gone astray) | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | It has seven doors; for each one a fixed portion of them has been specified. | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | "It (Hell) has seven gates, for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned | |
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
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| Linda “iLHam” Barto | | Seven gates lead to (Hell). A different group is assigned for each gate. | |
| Sayyid Qutb | | It has seven gates, with each gate having its allotted share of them.' | |
| Ahmed Hulusi | | “It has seven gates (the seven organs – eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, stomach and sexual organs – which are misused to defeat their purpose)... And each gate has a section allotted to them.” | |
| Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli | | It has seven gates, for every gate there shall be a (separate) party of them assigned. | |
| Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim | | Apprehended in a material sense, it has seven gates through each of which shall enter those appropriated to the degree of suffering that is commensurate with their evil deeds | |
| Mir Aneesuddin | | There are seven gates for it, for each of these (gates) there will be an assigned portion. | |
