23. Surah Al-Mu'minun, Verse 41
فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ بِالْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ غُـثَٓاءًۚ فَبُعْداً لِلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِم۪ينَ
Faakhathat-humu assayhatubilhaqqi fajaAAalnahum ghuthaanfabuAAdan lilqawmi aththalimeen
The Great Blast seized hold of them inexorably and We turned them into dirty scum. Away with the people of the wrongdoers!
- Progressive Muslims
So the scream took them with justice, and We made them as dead plants. So away with the wicked people.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And then the Blast of (Our Requital) overtook them, justly and inevitably, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves. (11:68). And so - away with people who wronged their own "Self"!
- Sam Gerrans
Then the Blast seized them with justice, and We made them as decaying herbage: — “Then away with the wrongdoing people!”
- The Monotheist Group
So the scream took them with justice, and We made them as dead plants. So away with the wicked people.
- Edip-Layth
So the scream took them with justice, and We made them as dead plants. So away with the wicked people.
- Aisha Bewley
The Great Blast seized hold of them inexorably and We turned them into dirty scum. Away with the people of the wrongdoers!
- Rashad Khalifa
The retribution struck them, equitably, and thus, we turned them into ruins. The wicked people perished.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
So they were rightly seized by a mighty blast; and We turned them into mouldy rubbish: A good riddance of the wicked people!
- Sahih International
So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.
- Muhammad Asad
And then the blast [of Our punishment] overtook them, justly and unavoidably, and We caused them to become as the flotsam of dead leaves and the scum borne on the surface of a torrent: and so - away with those evildoing folk!
- Marmaduke Pickthall
So the (Awful) Cry overtook them rightfully, and We made them like as wreckage (that a torrent hurleth). A far removal for wrongdoing folk!
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And there, in due time were they justly overtaken by a direful cry from heaven's realm stirring up a merciless blast reducing them to an assemblage of scum, and so away with the wrongful of actions.
- Bijan Moeinian
They deserved the punishment that struck them. I turned them into ruins. The unjust people disappeared.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
So As-Saihah (torment - awful cry) overtook them in truth (with justice), and We made them as rubbish of dead plants. So away with the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh, disobedient to His Messengers).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Then the Blast overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves (floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong!
- Mustafa Khattab
Then the ˹mighty˺ blast overtook them with justice, and We reduced them to rubble. So away with the wrongdoing people!
- Taqi Usmani
So the Cry seized them according to the true (promise), and We turned them in to scum. So, away with the wrongdoing people.
- Abdul Haleem
The blast justly struck them and We swept them away like scum. Away with the evildoers!
- Arthur John Arberry
And the Cry seized them justly, and We made them as scum; so away with the people of the evildoers!
- E. Henry Palmer
And the noise seized them deservedly; and we made them as rubbish borne by a torrent; so, away with the unjust people!
- Hamid S. Aziz
He said, "Within a little while they will surely be sorry!"
- Mahmoud Ghali
So the Shout took them (away) with the truth, then We made them (as) stubble; so far away (are gone) the unjust people!
- George Sale
Wherefore a severe punishment was justly inflicted on them, and We rendered them like the refuse which is carried down by a stream. Away therefore with the ungodly people!
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Then the blast (an awful cry) came to them with justice, and We made them like rubbish of dead leaves so, away with the wrongdoers!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Then the punishment overtook them justly and rightfully and We made them as scum (of the flood), so the people who do wrong are far removed (from the mercy of God).
- Ali Quli Qarai
So the Cry seized them justifiably and We turned them into a scum. So away with the wrongdoing lot!