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اِذَا وَقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُۙ

Itha waqaAAati alwaqiAAat

When the Great Event occurs,

  • Progressive Muslims

    When the inevitable comes to pass.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    When the Inevitable Episode unfolds.

  • Sam Gerrans

    When the Event befalls,

  • The Monotheist Group

    When the inevitable comes to pass.

  • Edip-Layth

    When the inevitable comes to pass.

  • Aisha Bewley

    When the Great Event occurs,

  • Rashad Khalifa

    When the inevitable comes to pass.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    WHEN WHAT IS to happen comes to pass --

  • Sahih International

    When the Occurrence occurs,

  • Muhammad Asad

    WHEN THAT which must come to pass [at last] comes to pass,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When the event befalleth -

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    When the horrendous Eventful Event comes to pass.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When the inevitable day of doom takes place.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    When the Event (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) befalls.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    When the Event inevitable cometh to pass,

  • Mustafa Khattab

    When the Inevitable Event takes place,

  • Taqi Usmani

    When the Imminent Event (of Doom) will occur,

  • Abdul Haleem

    When that which is coming arrives,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    When the Terror descends

  • E. Henry Palmer

    When the inevitable happens;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    When the Inevitable Event comes to pass -

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    When the Event (Literally: the Befalling) befalls,

  • George Sale

    When the inevitable day of judgment shall suddenly come,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    When the Event that must occur will become a reality,

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (Beware of the time) when the inevitable (and the promised) Event shall come to pass.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    When the Imminent [Hour] befalls