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Muhammad Asad
[It will come to pass] on the Day when the skies will be convulsed in [a great] convulsion
Arthur John Arberry
Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
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Transliteration-2
yawma tamūru l-samāu mawra
Word by Word (2021)
(On the) Day will shake the heaven (with violent) shake
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
[It will come to pass] on the Day when the skies will be convulsed in [a great] convulsion
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
On the day when the heaven will heave with (awful) heaving
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
Mustafa Khattab 2018
on the Day the heavens will be shaken violently,
Safi Kaskas 2025
On the Day heaven sways with agitation
Wahiduddin Khan
on the Day when the skies are convulsed
Shakir
On the day when the heaven shall move from side to sid
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
On a Day when the heaven will spin a spinning
T.B.Irving
on a day when the sky will shift about
Abdul Hye
On the Day when the heaven will shake with a dreadful shaking
Saeed Malik
A day the sky categorically sways
The Study Quran
On a day when the sky churns with [great] churning
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
On the Day the sky will sway violently.
Talal Itani (2012)
On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation
Dr. Kamal Omar
The Day the heaven trembles in a dreadful shahead of state
M. Farook Malik
On that Day, heaven will shake violentl
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
The Day when the heaven whirls with (awful) whirling
Muhammad Sarwar
On the day when the heavens will swiftly fl
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
the Day when the sky will tremble, a horrible trembling
Shabbir Ahmed
On the day when the high elite will be shaken, and shaken well. ('Sama' = Sky, heaven, height, top and elite)
Dr. Munir Munshey
The sky, that day, would rock and reel fiercely
Syed Vickar Ahamed
On the Day when the sky will swing in terrible fear
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
On the Day the heaven will sway with circular motion
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
The Day when the heaven will violently thunder.
Abdel Haleem
on the Day when the sky sways back and fort
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
On the Day whereon the heaven will shake with an awful shaking
Ahmed Ali
The day the sky will tremble
Aisha Bewley
On the Day when heaven sways to and fro
Ali Ãœnal
On that Day the heaven will be convulsed violently
Ali Quli Qara'i
On the day when the sky whirls violently
Hamid S. Aziz
On the day when the heaven shall heave with awful commotion
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
The day when the sky swings back and forth,
Bilal Muhammad 2018
On the day that the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
Musharraf Hussain
Even the sky will shudder and judder that Day,
Maududi
(It shall come to pass) on the Day when the heaven will convulse in a great convulsion
Mohammad Shafi
When the sky [Universe] tremble
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
The day when the heaven will shake with awful shaking.
Rashad Khalifa
The day will come when the sky will violently thunder.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Upon the Day when the heaven spins dizzily
Maulana Muhammad Ali
On the day when the heaven will be in a state of commotion
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
A day/time the sky/space agitates/moves from side to side quickly (in) agitation/quick movement from side to side
Bijan Moeinian
On the day that the heaven will move from…
Faridul Haque
A day on which the heavens will shake with a visible shaking
Sher Ali
On the day when the heaven will be in a state of terrific commotion
Edip Yuksel
The day when the sky will violently thunder.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
The Day when the heaven will shake with a terrible tremor
Amatul Rahman Omar
The day the sky shall reel and rock (in a state of terrific commotion)
Hilali - Khan
On the Day when the heaven will shake with a dreadful shaking
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily
George Sale
On that day the heaven shall be shaken, and shall reel
Edward Henry Palmer
The day when the heavens shall reel about
John Medows Rodwell
Reeling on that day the Heaven shall reel
N J Dawood 2014
On that day the heaven will shake and reel,
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
The day (Yaw'ma) the sky (Es'Samaau) will swing (Tamuuru) with a swinging motion (Maw'raa),
Fode Drame
On the day when the heaven will gyrate a complete gyrating.
MunirMezyed2023
On the day when the sky will fluctuate with a dreadful fluctuation
Mustaqim
On the day the sky will sway.
Linda "iLham" Barto
[It will be] the day when the sky will be in dreadful commotion.
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
on the day when the sky sways in agitation
Irving/Hegab
on a day when the sky will shift about
Samy Mahdy
On a Day when the heaven sways in violently swaying.
Qarai
On the day when the sky whirls violently,
Ahmed Hulusi
At that time, the heaven (consciousness) will be bewildered!
Mubarakpuri
On the Day when Tamur the heaven Mawr,
A. S. Mohamed
On the Day when the sky will sway violently,
Mir Aneesuddin
The day the sky will whirl (with a) whirl
[Al-Muntakhab]
A day shall come when the heaven sways from side to side in dreadful, commotion
The Wise Quran Project
On the day the heaven will reel, reeling,
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
The Day when the heaven will violently thunder.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
The Day when the sky will violently thunder
OLD Word by Word
(On the) Day will shake the heaven (with violent) shake
Transliteration
Yawma tamooru alssamao mawran