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Ayah al-Waqi`ah (The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming) 56:7
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Muhammad Asad
[on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
you will ˹all˺ be ˹divided into˺ three groups:
Safi Kaskas
then you [human beings] will be divided into three separate groups:
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Arabic
وَكُنتُمْ أَزْوَاجًا ثَلَاثَة
Transliteration (2021)
wakuntum azwājan thalāthata
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Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
And you will become kinds three.
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
[on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds
M. M. Pickthall
And ye will be three kinds
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And ye shall be sorted out into three classes
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
you will ˹all˺ be ˹divided into˺ three groups:
Safi Kaskas
then you [human beings] will be divided into three separate groups:
Wahiduddin Khan
[on that Day] you shall be divided into three groups.[43]
Shakir
And you shall be three sorts
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
And you had been of three diverse pairs.
T.B.Irving
You will form three groups:
Abdul Hye
And then you all will be in 3 kinds (separate groups):
The Study Quran
and you shall be of three kinds
Dr. Kamal Omar
And (O mankind!) you have become three (separate) groups
Farook Malik
Then you shall be divided into three groups
Talal A. Itani (new translation)
And you become three classes
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And you will be three pairs
Muhammad Sarwar
On that day, you (mankind) will be divided into three groups
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
and you will be (divided into) three categories
Shabbir Ahmed
Then, you shall be three kinds
Dr. Munir Munshey
(That day), you shall (all) be (divided into) three factions
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And you shall be sorted out into three classes
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
And you become [of] three kinds
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
And you will be in three groupings
Abdel Haleem
then you will be sorted into three classes
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And ye are classes three
Ahmed Ali
You will become three categories
Aisha Bewley
And you will be classed into three:
Ali Ünal
You (all conscious, responsible beings) will be sorted out into three group
Ali Quli Qara'i
you will be three groups
Hamid S. Aziz
And you shall be sorted into three classes
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
And you will be three types
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
And you will be sorted out into three classes
Musharraf Hussain
That Day you will be sorted out into three lots:
Maududi
You shall then become three groups
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And you will be in three groupings.
Mohammad Shafi
And you shall be [divided] into three categorie
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
And you shall become three kinds.
Rashad Khalifa
You will be stratified into three kinds.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
you shall be divided into three parties
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And you are three sorts
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
And you were three kinds
Bijan Moeinian
Then people will be ranked into three categories
Faridul Haque
And you will become divided into three categories
Sher Ali
And you shall be divided into three groups
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And you will be divided into three classes
Amatul Rahman Omar
And (at that time) you shall be (sorted out into) three distinct categories
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
And you (all) will be in three kinds (i.e. separate groups)
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
and you shall be three bands -
George Sale
and ye shall be separated into three distinct classes
Edward Henry Palmer
And ye shall be three sorts
John Medows Rodwell
And into three bands shall ye be divided
N J Dawood (2014)
you shall be divided into three multitudes
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto
You [humanity] will belong to three classes:
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
You will form three groups:
Ahmed Hulusi
And you become divided into three kinds:
Mir Aneesuddin
And you will become three kinds:
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
There and then, you people shall fall into one of three orders, each occupying the position accorded with his merit
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
And ye shall be sorted out into three classes
OLD Literal
Word for Word
And you will become kinds three