Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

The day the earth and the mountains convulse and the mountains become a sliding sandhill.

يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الْاَرْضُ وَالْجِبَالُ وَكَانَتِ الْجِبَالُ كَث۪يباً مَه۪يلاً
Yawma tarjufu al-ardu waljibaluwakanati aljibalu katheeban maheela
#wordmeaningroot
1yawma(On the) Dayيوم
2tarjufuwill quakeرجف
3l-arḍuthe earthارض
4wal-jibāluand the mountainsجبل
5wakānatiand will becomeكون
6l-jibāluthe mountainsجبل
7kathībana heap of sandكثب
8mahīlanpouring downهيل
  • Aisha Bewley

    on the Day the earth and mountains shake and the mountains become like shifting dunes.

  • Progressive Muslims

    The Day the Earth and the mountains shake, and the mountains become crumbling sand.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    The Day is coming when the masses and the wealthy tyrants will shake, and the leaders will become heaps of sand.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    The day the earth and the mountains convulse and the mountains become a sliding sandhill.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    The Day the earth and the mountains shake, and the mountains become a crumbling pile.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The day the earth and the mountains shake, and the mountains become a crumbling pile.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    The day will come when the earth and the mountains will quake, and the mountains will turn into a weightless pile.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    On the day the earth and mountains will rock violently, and the mountains turn to a heap of poured-out sand.

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

    On the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains will become a heap of sand pouring down.

  • Muhammad Asad

    on the Day when the earth and the mountains will be convulsed and the mountains will become like a sand-dune on the move!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    On the day when the earth and the hills rock, and the hills become a heap of running sand.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    (They will come across all this) on the Day when the earth and the mountains shall tremble violently and the mountains shall crumble into heaps of scattered sand.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    One Day the earth and the mountains shall be thrown into earthquakes, volcanoes and convulsions, and the mountains cave in and become like wind- drifted sand.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Pretty soon a day will come when the earth and the mountains will shake so violently that the mountains will transfer into scattered sand

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    On the Day when the earth and the mountains will be in violent shake, and the mountains will be a heap of sand poured out.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    One Day the earth and the mountains will be in violent commotion. And the mountains will be as a heap of sand poured out and flowing down.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    on the Day the earth and mountains will shake ˹violently˺, and mountains will be ˹reduced to˺ dunes of shifting sand.

  • Taqi Usmani

    on the Day when the earth and the mountains will quake, and the mountains will turn into a slipping heap of sand.

  • Abdul Haleem

    on the Day when the earth and the mountains will shake. The mountains will become a heap of loose sand.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    upon the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains become a slipping heap of sand.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    On the day when the earth and the mountains shall tremble and the earth shall be as a crumbling sand-hill!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become (as) heaps of running sand.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    On the Day when the earth and the mountains will be in commotion, and the mountains become a heap of sand let loose.

  • George Sale

    On a certain day the earth shall be shaken, and the mountains also, and the mountains shall become a heap of sand poured forth.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    On the Day when the earth and the mountains will be in violent bang and the mountains will be like a heap of sand poured out and flowing down.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (That punishment will befall them) on the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall crumble into heaps of sand dunes.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    the day when the earth and the mountains will quake, and the mountains will be like dunes of shifting sand.