29. Surah Al-'Ankabut, Verse 37
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَۘ
Fakaththaboohu faakhathat-humuarrajfatu faasbahoo fee darihim jathimeen
But they denied him so the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.
- Progressive Muslims
But they denied him, thus the Earthquake took them; they were then left dead in their homes.
- Shabbir Ahmed
But they denied him. Thereupon a dreadful rainstorm and earthquake overtook them, and morning found them dead, prone in their homes. (26:189).
- Sam Gerrans
Then they denied him, and the earthquake seized them, and morning found them lying prone in their home.
- The Monotheist Group
But they denied him, so the earthquake took them; thus they became lifeless in their dwelling.
- Edip-Layth
But they denied him, thus the earthquake took them; they were then left dead in their homes.
- Aisha Bewley
But they denied him so the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.
- Rashad Khalifa
They disbelieved him and, consequently, the earthquake annihilated them; they were left dead in their homes by morning.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
But they denied him and were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned in their homes in the morning.
- Sahih International
But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
- Muhammad Asad
But they gave him the lie. Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
But they accused him of falsehood and in consequence they were seized by the destructive convulsion of the earth's surface which reduced them into a useless form and laid them prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes.
- Bijan Moeinian
They chose to disregard the message. Consequently I sent them a sever earthquake and by the morning they were all dead in their habitats.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And they belied him [Shu‘aib]: so the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their dwellings.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
But they rejected him: Then the mighty Blast seized them, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning.
- Mustafa Khattab
But they rejected him, so an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them and they fell lifeless in their homes.
- Taqi Usmani
So they gave the lie to him, then they were seized by the earthquake and they remained in their homes lying on their faces.
- Abdul Haleem
They rejected him and so the earthquake overtook them. When morning came, they were lying dead in their homes.
- Arthur John Arberry
But they cried lies to him; so the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.
- E. Henry Palmer
But they called him liar; and the convulsion seized them, and on the morrow they lay in their dwellings prone.
- Hamid S. Aziz
And unto Midian We sent their brother Shu'eyb, and he said, "My people, serve Allah, and fear the Last Day; and do not evil, making mischief in the land, (despoiling it). "
- Mahmoud Ghali
Yet they cried lies to him. Then the Commotion took them (away); so in the morning they became cowering (bodies) in their home-residence.
- George Sale
But they accused him of imposture; wherefore a storm from heaven assailed them, and in the morning they were found in their dwellings dead and prostrate.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And they rejected him: Then the mighty earthquake seized them, and they lay overcome (face down) in their homes by the morning.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
But (instead of obeying him) they cried him (-Shu`aib) lies. So they were caught in a violent earthquake and they became (corpses) laid down on their breasts on the ground in their dwellings.
- Ali Quli Qarai
But they impugned him, whereupon the earthquake seized them, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes.