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لَوْ يَجِدُونَ مَلْجَـٔاً اَوْ مَغَارَاتٍ اَوْ مُدَّخَلاً لَوَلَّوْا اِلَيْهِ وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ

Law yajidoona maljaan aw magharatinaw muddakhalan lawallaw ilayhi wahum yajmahoon

If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry away into it.

  • Progressive Muslims

    If they find a refuge, or cave, or any place to enter, then they would have run to it while they are in haste.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    If they could find a refuge or a cave or a hiding place, they would rush to it like runaway horses.

  • Sam Gerrans

    Had they found a refuge, or caves, or a place to enter, they would turn towards it and bolt away.

  • The Monotheist Group

    If they find a refuge, or cave, or any place to enter, they will run to it while they are in haste.

  • Edip-Layth

    If they could find a refuge, a cave, or any place to enter, then they would have run to it, rushing.

  • Aisha Bewley

    If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry away into it.

  • Rashad Khalifa

    If they could find a refuge, or caves, or a hiding place, they would go to it, rushing.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    If they find a place of shelter or a cave or hole to hide, they will turn to it.

  • Sahih International

    If they could find a refuge or some caves or any place to enter [and hide], they would turn to it while they run heedlessly.

  • Muhammad Asad

    if they could but find a place of refuge, or any cavern, or a crevice [in the earth], they would turn towards it in headlong haste.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Had they but found a refuge, or caverns, or a place to enter, they surely had resorted thither swift as runaways.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    If they can find a place of refuge or a cave or a hiding place, they will withdraw hastily from your society and fly to it.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    If they could find a place (even a cave) to flea [like most hypocrites of our time who emigrate to the West], they would run as fast as possible to take refuge in it [and to save themselves from their Islamic obligations such as praying, fasting,. ........... ]

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Should they find a refuge, or caves, or a place of concealment, they would turn straightway thereto with a swift rush.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    If they could find a place to flee to, or caves, or a place of concealment, they would turn straightaway thereto, with an obstinate rush.

  • Mustafa Khattab

    If only they could find a refuge, or a cave, or any hiding-place, they would rush headlong towards it.

  • Taqi Usmani

    If they find a place of refuge or caves or any place to enter, they will turn towards it running (as) unbridled (horses).

  • Abdul Haleem

    if they could find a place of refuge, or a cave, or somewhere to crawl into, they would run there with great haste.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    If they could find a shelter, or some caverns, or any place to creep into, they would turn about and bolt away to it.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a place in which to creep, they would have turned round in haste thereto.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a hiding place in which to creep, thither would they have rushed (jamaha = hastened with uncontrollable urgency, madly, obstinately).

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    If they could find a shelter, or (some) cavernous places, or any place of entry, they would indeed turn about and bolt away (to it). .

  • George Sale

    If they find a place of refuge, or caves, or a retreating hole, they surely turn towards the same, and in a headstrong manner haste thereto.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    If they could find a place of refuge, or caves, or a place of hiding, they would run there at once, in great hurry.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Could they find a shelter or some caverns or any (other) place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto rushing headlong (for it).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    If they could find a refuge, or a hideout, or a hole [to creep into], they would turn to it in frantic haste.