إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا
WHEN THE EARTH quakes with her [last] mighty quaking, (1)
وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا
and [when] the earth yields up her burdens, (2)
وَقَالَ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا لَهَا
and man cries out, "What has happened to her?" – (3)
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
on that Day will she recount all her tidings, (4)
بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَىٰ لَهَا
as thy Sustainer will have inspired her to do. (5)
يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصْدُرُ النَّاسُ أَشْتَاتًا لِيُرَوْا أَعْمَالَهُمْ
On that Day will all men come forward, cut off from one another, to be shown their [past] deeds. (6)
فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ
And so, he who shall have done an atom's weight of good, shall behold it; (7)
وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ
and he who shall have done an atom's weight of evil, shall behold it. (8)
- When the earth is shaken to her (utmost) convulsion,6235
- 6235 To the ordinary human observer a violent earthquake is a terrifying phenomenon, in its suddenness, in its mysterious origin, and in its power to destroy and uproot the strongest buildings and to bring up strange materials from the bowels of the earth. The Overwhelming Event (S. 88) which ushers in the Judgement will be a bigger and more far-reaching convulsion than any earthquakes that we know. And yet the incidents of earthquakes may give us some idea of that supreme world-shaking Event.
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When the earth is shaken to her (utmost) convulsion,
— Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
When Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake
— Marmaduke Pickthall -
When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,
— M. Habib Shakir -
When the earth is shaken with its (final) earthquake.
— Taqiuddin Hilali and M. Mohsin Khan -
When the earth is shaken by the shaking thereof,
— Abdul-Majid Daryabadi -
When the earth is shaken with its mighty shaking,
— Hasan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish -
When the earth is shaken violently,
— Ayub Khan -
When the earth is shaken with her violent shaking,
— Sher Ali -
WHEN THE EARTH quakes with her [last] mighty quaking,
— Muhammad Asad -
When earth is shaken with a mighty shaking
— Arthur Arberry -
When the earth will be shaken with a mighty shaking,{{1}}
— Abu'l Ala Maududi