7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 78
فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَ
Faakhathat-humu arrajfatu faasbahoofee darihim jathimeen
So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.
- Progressive Muslims
The Earthquake took them, so they became lifeless in their homes.
- Shabbir Ahmed
(In their life of luxury, like other strong nations they felt invincible. ) The destruction came from under their feet. A powerful earthquake annihilated them, leaving them lifeless in their homes.
- Sam Gerrans
So the earthquake seized them; and morning found them lying prone in their home,
- The Monotheist Group
The earthquake took them, thus they became lifeless in their home.
- Edip-Layth
The earthquake took them, so they fell motionless in their homes.
- Aisha Bewley
So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.
- Rashad Khalifa
Consequently, the quake annihilated them, leaving them dead in their homes.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Then they were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned on the ground in their homes in the morning.
- Sahih International
So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
- Muhammad Asad
Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
There, did the destructive convulsion of the earth's surface seize them and reduced them to a useless form and laid them prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes.
- Bijan Moeinian
Eventually they were killed by a sudden catastrophe, while resting at home.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
So the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning!
- Mustafa Khattab
Then an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them, and they fell lifeless in their homes.
- Taqi Usmani
So, the earthquake seized them, and they were (found dead) in their homes, fallen on their faces.
- Abdul Haleem
An earthquake seized them: by the next morning they were lying dead in their homes.
- Arthur John Arberry
So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.
- E. Henry Palmer
Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings;
- Hamid S. Aziz
Then the earthquake seized them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Then the Commotion took them (away), and so (in the morning) they became cowering (bodies) in their residence.
- George Sale
Whereupon a terrible noise from heaven assailed them; and in the morning they were found in their dwellings prostrate on their breasts and dead.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
So the earthquake overtook them while they were not aware, and they lay on their face down in their homes in the morning!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
So the earthquake seized them and the morning found them lying prostrate on the ground in their habitations.
- Ali Quli Qarai
So the earthquake seized them, and they lay lifeless prostrate in their homes.