52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 44
وَاِنْ يَرَوْا كِسْفاً مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ سَاقِطاً يَقُولُوا سَحَابٌ مَرْكُومٌ
Wa-in yaraw kisfan mina assama-isaqitan yaqooloo sahabun markoom
If they saw a lump of heaven falling down, they would just say, ‘Banked-up clouds!’
- Progressive Muslims
And if they see a spectacle from the sky, they will Say: "Piled clouds!"
- Shabbir Ahmed
Even if they were to see a fragment from the Height falling, they would say, "A dense cloud!" (Their lack of reasoning makes them oblivious to the Law of Requital (26:187)).
- Sam Gerrans
And were they to see pieces of the sky falling, they would say: “Clouds heaped up.”)
- The Monotheist Group
And if they see a portion from the heaven falling, they will say: "Piled clouds!"
- Edip-Layth
If they see an object falling from the sky, they will say, "Piled clouds!"
- Aisha Bewley
If they saw a lump of heaven falling down, they would just say, ‘Banked-up clouds!’
- Rashad Khalifa
When they see masses falling from the sky, they will say, "Piled clouds!"
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
If they should see a segment falling from the sky, they would say: "It is only a massive cloud. "
- Sahih International
And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up. "
- Muhammad Asad
AND YET, if they [who refuse to see the truth] were to see part of the sky falling down, they would [only] say, "[It is but] a mass of clouds!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And if they were to see a fragment of the heaven falling, they would say: A heap of clouds.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And if it so happens that they see a mass (sometimes devastating) falling from the sky, they would label it as a cumulus nimbus.
- Bijan Moeinian
Even a great miracle such as falling a part of the sky will be justified by them as "a mass of cloud advancing. "
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And if they were to see a piece of the heaven falling down, they would say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Were they to see a piece of the sky falling (on them), they would (only) say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"
- Mustafa Khattab
If they were to see a ˹deadly˺ piece of the sky fall down ˹upon them˺, still they would say, "˹This is just˺ a pile of clouds."
- Taqi Usmani
Even if they see a piece falling down from the sky, they would say, "It is a cumulated cloud."
- Abdul Haleem
Even if they saw a piece of heaven falling down on them, they would say, ‘Just a heap of clouds,’
- Arthur John Arberry
Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud!'
- E. Henry Palmer
But if they should see a fragment of the sky falling down, they would say, 'Clouds in masses!'
- Hamid S. Aziz
And if they should see a portion of the heaven coming down, they would say, "Piled up clouds. "
- Mahmoud Ghali
And in case they saw a dark lump falling down from the heaven, they would say, "Accumulated clouds!"
- George Sale
If they should see a fragment of the heaven falling down upon them, they would say, it is only a thick cloud.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And if they were to see a piece of the sky falling (on them), they would only say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And (even) if they see a fragment of the sky falling down (in the form of punishment) they would say, `(It is only) piled up clouds (and not a sign of punishment whatsoever).
- Ali Quli Qarai
Were they to see a fragment falling from the sky, they would say, ‘A cumulous cloud. ’