7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 91
فَاَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَاَصْبَحُوا ف۪ي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِم۪ينَۚۛ
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, thus they became lifeless in their homes.
- Shabbir Ahmed
A tremendous earthquake seized them and the morning found them dead in their homes, on the ground.
- 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, thus they fell motionless in their homes.
- Aisha Bewley
So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes.
- Rashad Khalifa
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
But soon thereafter 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
Consequently (in response to the Shu'aib's plea and their own wrongdoings) they were subjected to a catastrophic shock and they fell prostrate [out of fear or for repentance] and died in their own home [as they were not given any time to escape. ]
- Al-Hilali & Khan
So the earthquake seized them and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before 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 there took them the earthquake, and in the morning they lay in their dwellings prone.
- Hamid S. Aziz
So the earthquake seized them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Then the Commotion took them (away); so in the morning they became cowering (bodies) in their residence.
- George Sale
So the earthquake seized them and in their homes they lay prostrate upon the ground;
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
But the earthquake took them without warning, and they lay on their face in their homes before the morning!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Then they were caught in an earthquake 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.