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56. Surah Al-Waqi'ah, Verse 83

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فَلَوْلَٓا اِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْحُلْقُومَۙ

Falawla itha balaghati alhulqoom

Why then, when death reaches his throat

  • Progressive Muslims

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Why, then, as the last breath comes up to the throat,

  • Sam Gerrans

    Oh, that when it reaches the throat[...]!

  • The Monotheist Group

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Edip-Layth

    So when the time comes and it reaches your throat.

  • Aisha Bewley

    Why then, when death reaches his throat

  • Rashad Khalifa

    When the time comes and it (your soul) reaches your throat -

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then how is it that when the (dying) breath is withdrawn into the throat (and rattles),

  • Sahih International

    Then why, when the soul at death reaches the throat

  • Muhammad Asad

    Why, then, when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man],

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    So, what about the moment of the encounter with death when the soul is on its way out and it makes a rattle in the throat,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    When [the moment of death arrive and] the soul reaches the throat.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat,-

  • Mustafa Khattab

    Why then ˹are you helpless˺ when the soul ˹of a dying person˺ reaches ˹their˺ throat,

  • Taqi Usmani

    So why (do you) not (intervene) when the soul (of a dying person) reaches the throat,

  • Abdul Haleem

    When the soul of a dying man comes up to his throat

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Why, but when the soul leaps to the throat of the dying

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Why then - when it comes up to the throat,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Why then do you not (intervene) when the soul comes up to the throat (of a dying person),

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then had it been that, when (the self) (i. e., the self of the dying person) reaches the gullet (of the dying)-

  • George Sale

    When the soul of a dying person cometh up to his throat,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Why, then, when the soul (of the dying person) reaches the throat,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    So when it reaches the throat [of the dying person]