9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 57
لَوْ يَجِدُونَ مَلْجَـٔاً اَوْ مَغَارَاتٍ اَوْ مُدَّخَلاً لَوَلَّوْا اِلَيْهِ وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ
Law yajidoona maljaan aw magharatinaw muddakhalan lawallaw ilayhi wahum yajmahoon
If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry away into it.
- Progressive Muslims
If they find a refuge, or cave, or any place to enter, then they would have run to it while they are in haste.
- Shabbir Ahmed
If they could find a refuge or a cave or a hiding place, they would rush to it like runaway horses.
- Sam Gerrans
Had they found a refuge, or caves, or a place to enter, they would turn towards it and bolt away.
- The Monotheist Group
If they find a refuge, or cave, or any place to enter, they will run to it while they are in haste.
- Edip-Layth
If they could find a refuge, a cave, or any place to enter, then they would have run to it, rushing.
- Aisha Bewley
If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry away into it.
- Rashad Khalifa
If they could find a refuge, or caves, or a hiding place, they would go to it, rushing.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
If they find a place of shelter or a cave or hole to hide, they will turn to it.
- Sahih International
If they could find a refuge or some caves or any place to enter [and hide], they would turn to it while they run heedlessly.
- Muhammad Asad
if they could but find a place of refuge, or any cavern, or a crevice [in the earth], they would turn towards it in headlong haste.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Had they but found a refuge, or caverns, or a place to enter, they surely had resorted thither swift as runaways.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
If they can find a place of refuge or a cave or a hiding place, they will withdraw hastily from your society and fly to it.
- Bijan Moeinian
If they could find a place (even a cave) to flea [like most hypocrites of our time who emigrate to the West], they would run as fast as possible to take refuge in it [and to save themselves from their Islamic obligations such as praying, fasting,. ........... ]
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Should they find a refuge, or caves, or a place of concealment, they would turn straightway thereto with a swift rush.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
If they could find a place to flee to, or caves, or a place of concealment, they would turn straightaway thereto, with an obstinate rush.
- Mustafa Khattab
If only they could find a refuge, or a cave, or any hiding-place, they would rush headlong towards it.
- Taqi Usmani
If they find a place of refuge or caves or any place to enter, they will turn towards it running (as) unbridled (horses).
- Abdul Haleem
if they could find a place of refuge, or a cave, or somewhere to crawl into, they would run there with great haste.
- Arthur John Arberry
If they could find a shelter, or some caverns, or any place to creep into, they would turn about and bolt away to it.
- E. Henry Palmer
Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a place in which to creep, they would have turned round in haste thereto.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a hiding place in which to creep, thither would they have rushed (jamaha = hastened with uncontrollable urgency, madly, obstinately).
- Mahmoud Ghali
If they could find a shelter, or (some) cavernous places, or any place of entry, they would indeed turn about and bolt away (to it). .
- George Sale
If they find a place of refuge, or caves, or a retreating hole, they surely turn towards the same, and in a headstrong manner haste thereto.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
If they could find a place of refuge, or caves, or a place of hiding, they would run there at once, in great hurry.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Could they find a shelter or some caverns or any (other) place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto rushing headlong (for it).
- Ali Quli Qarai
If they could find a refuge, or a hideout, or a hole [to creep into], they would turn to it in frantic haste.