69. Surah Al-Haqqah, Verse 16
وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَٓاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌۙ
Wanshaqqati assamaofahiya yawma-ithin wahiya
and Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail.
- Progressive Muslims
And the heavens will be torn, and on that Day it will be flimsy.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And when the sky will be rent asunder, such that frail will it be that Day.
- Sam Gerrans
And the sky be split asunder for it, that day, is frail,
- The Monotheist Group
And the sky will be torn, and on that Day it will be flimsy.
- Edip-Layth
The heavens will be torn, and on that day it will be flimsy.
- Aisha Bewley
and Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail.
- Rashad Khalifa
The heaven will crack, and fall apart.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
The sky will cleave asunder on that day and fall to pieces.
- Sahih International
And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.
- Muhammad Asad
and the sky will be rent asunder - for, frail will it have become on that Day -;
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And the heavens have been parted asunder, and with frailty they stand shaky and agitated.
- Bijan Moeinian
The Day on which the [ozone layer of the] sky will crack and the cosmos will loose its order.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And the heaven will be rent asunder, for that Day it (the heaven) will be frail and torn up.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
- Mustafa Khattab
The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,
- Taqi Usmani
and the sky will burst apart, while it will have become frail on that day.
- Abdul Haleem
The sky will be torn apart on that Day, it will be so frail.
- Arthur John Arberry
and heaven shall be split, for upon that day it shall be very frail,
- E. Henry Palmer
and the heaven on that day shall be cleft asunder, for on that day shall it wane!
- Hamid S. Aziz
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that Day it shall be frail,
- Mahmoud Ghali
And the heaven will be cloven. So, upon that Day it will be (very) frail,
- George Sale
and the heavens shall cleave in sunder, and shall fall in pieces, on that day:
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And the sky will be split apart, for that Day will be flimsy and torn apart,
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And the heaven will cleave asunder for it will have become frail on that day.
- Ali Quli Qarai
and the sky will be split open —for it will be frail that day—