21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 12
فَلَمَّٓا اَحَسُّوا بَأْسَنَٓا اِذَا هُمْ مِنْهَا يَرْكُضُونَۜ
Falamma ahassoo ba/sanaitha hum minha yarkudoon
When they perceived Our violent force they ran away from it.
- Progressive Muslims
So it was that when they perceived Our power, they were running from it.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And as soon as they began feeling Our Mighty Requital, behold them fleeing from it! (7:182), (16:26).
- Sam Gerrans
And when they perceived Our might, then did they flee from it.
- The Monotheist Group
So it was that when they perceived Our power, they were running from it.
- Edip-Layth
So it was that when they perceived Our power, they were running from it.
- Aisha Bewley
When they perceived Our violent force they ran away from it.
- Rashad Khalifa
When our requital came to pass, they started to run.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Whensoever they sensed Our punishment they fled from them.
- Sahih International
And when its inhabitants perceived Our punishment, at once they fled from it.
- Muhammad Asad
And [every time, ] as soon as they began to feel Our punishing might, lo! they tried to flee from it
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And when they sensed Our wrath approaching, in vain for their life, they fled to other places.
- Bijan Moeinian
When My punishment descended upon them, they tried to run from it.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.
- Mustafa Khattab
When the wrongdoers sensed ˹the arrival of˺ Our torment, they started to run away from their cities.
- Taqi Usmani
So, as soon as they sensed Our punishment (approaching them), they started fleeing from it.
- Abdul Haleem
When they felt Our might coming upon them, see how they tried to escape it!
- Arthur John Arberry
Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it.
- E. Henry Palmer
And when they perceived our violence they ran away from it.
- Hamid S. Aziz
How many a community that had done wrong have We shattered, and raised up after it another people!
- Mahmoud Ghali
Then, when they perceived Our violence, only then did they (run) scampering out of it.
- George Sale
And when they felt our severe vengeance, behold, they fled swiftly from those cities.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Then, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), look, they (tried to) run away from it.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
No sooner did they perceive Our punishment than they began to flee from it.
- Ali Quli Qarai
So when they sighted Our punishment, behold, they ran away from it.