Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And the overthrown cities He cast down,

وَالْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ اَهْوٰىۙ
Walmu/tafikata ahwa
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1wal-mu'tafikataAnd the overturned citiesافك
2ahwāHe overthrewهوي
  • Aisha Bewley

    and the Overturned City which He turned upside down

  • Progressive Muslims

    And the evil communities were the lowliest.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And His Law of Requital annihilated the cities such that they were overthrown.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And the overthrown cities He cast down,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And the overthrown city was made to fall.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The evil communities were the lowliest.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The evil communities (of Sodom and Gomorrah) were the lowliest.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And He overthrew the Cities of the Plain,

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And the overturned towns He hurled down

  • Muhammad Asad

    just as He thrust into perdition those cities that were overthrown

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And Al-Mu'tafikah He destroyed

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    And He brought perdition upon the subverted cities

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And it was He Who brought to ruin and reduced to impotence the cities old Sodom and Gomorrah,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The evil communities had sunk to the lowest….

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And He destroyed the overthrown cities .

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And He destroyed the Overthrown Cities (of Sodom and Gomorrah).

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And ˹it was˺ He ˹Who˺ turned the cities ˹of Sodom and Gomorrah˺ upside down.

  • Taqi Usmani

    And He destroyed the overturned towns (of the people of LūT) also,

  • Abdul Haleem

    that it was He who brought down the ruined cities

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and the Subverted City He also overthrew,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And the overthrown (cities) He threw down;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And He destroyed the Overthrown Cities (of Sodom and Gomorrah),

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And the City of Falsehood, He (also) made it sweep down,

  • George Sale

    And He overthrew the cities which were turned upside down;

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And He destroyed the defeated Cities (of Sodom and Gomorrah),

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And (that it is He) Who totally pulled down the subverted cities (- Sodom and Gomorrah of the people of Lot),

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    and He overthrew the town that was overturned,