Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | So the earthquake seized them and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning | |
Shakir | | Then the earthquake overtook them, so they became motionless bodies in their abode | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Thereupon an earthquake overtook them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Then, the quaking of the earth took them and they came to be in the morning ones who are fallen prostrate in their abodes. | |
| T.B.Irving | | So the Tremor caught them, and one morning they lay cowering in their homes: | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Then an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them and they fell lifeless in their homes. | |
| Safi Kaskas | | An earthquake overtook them and they lay lifeless in their homes." | |
| Abdul Hye | | So the earthquake seized them and they lay dead, prostrate in their homes. | |
| The Study Quran | | So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them lying lifeless in their abode | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | The Earthquake took them, thus they became lifeless in their homes | |
Abdel Haleem | | an earthquake seized them: by the next morning they were lying dead in their homes | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Whereupon an earthquake laid hold of them: so that they lay prone in their dwelling | |
Ahmed Ali | | Then they were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned on the ground in their homes in the morning | |
Aisha Bewley | | So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes. | |
Ali Ünal | | Then a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate and lifeless in their very dwellings &ndash | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | So the earthquake seized them, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | So the earthquake seized them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Then the Commotion took them (away); so in the morning they became cowering (bodies) in their residence | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | Suddenly, an earthquake struck them and left them motionless in their homes | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | So, the earthquake seized them, and they were (found dead) in their homes, fallen on their faces | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | A tremendous earthquake seized them and the morning found them dead in their homes, on the ground | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | But the earthquake took them without warning, and they lay on their face in their homes before the morning | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone | |
Farook Malik | | Thereupon an earthquake overtook them and they became lifeless bodies in their homes with their faces down | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | Consequently, an earthquake seized them. The next morning found them lifeless in their homes, face down (in the dirt) | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | So the earthquake seized them, so they faced the morning in their houses as those who are lying dead (on the ground) | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Thereupon, the quake struck them; and they became lifeless bodies in their homes | |
Maududi | | Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | So the earthquake took them, and they became motionless bodies (and died) in their houses | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | But the earthquake took them unaware, and they lay prostrate in their homes | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | After that they were seized by an Earthquake so violent that they ended up lying face down in their homes | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | The earthquake took them, thus they became lifeless in their home. | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | A violent shaking seized them then, and they lay lifeless in their abode | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | Consequently (in response to the Shu'aib's plea and their own wrongdoings) they were subjected to a catastrophic shock and they fell prostrate [out of fear or for repentance] and died in their own home [as they were not given any time to escape.] | |
| Faridul Haque | | Therefore the earthquake seized them - so at morning they remained lying flattened in their homes | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | So the earthquake seized them, at the morning they were crouched in their dwellings, dead | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | So the earthquake overtook them, and they were motionless bodies in their abode - | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | So the tremble/shake/quake punished/took them so they became/became in the morning in their home/country/place stuck to the ground (dead) | |
Sher Ali | | So the earthquake seized them and in their homes they lay prostrate upon the ground | |
Rashad Khalifa | | The quake annihilated them, leaving them dead in their homes. | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Then an earthquake over took them; so in the morning they fell prostrate in their homes, | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | Then they were caught in an earthquake and the morning found them lying prostrate on the ground in their habitations | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Then a (torment of) high-scale earthquake seized them, and in the morning, they were dead, lying prone in their homes | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | So the earthquake seized them and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes | |
