Quran Ayah al-Mursalat (The Emissaries, Winds Sent Forth) 77:8 - 70+ Translation Comparison

Popular and/or Featured Works

Muhammad Asad

Thus, [it will come to pass] when the stars are effaced

Arthur John Arberry

When the stars shall be extinguished

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Then when the stars become dim

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Arabic

فَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ طُمِسَتۡ ۝٨

Transliteration (2021)

fa-idhā l-nujūmu ṭumisa

Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

So when the stars are obliterated,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

Thus, [it will come to pass] when the stars are effaced

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Then when the stars become dim

M. M. Pickthall

So when the stars are put out

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

So when the stars are put out,

Wahiduddin Khan

When the stars lose their light

Safi Kaskas

So when the stars are extinguished,

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Then, when the stars will be obliterated

T.B.Irving

When the stars fade away,

Shakir

So when the stars are made to lose their light

Saeed Malik

So then when the stars are erased

Abdul Hye

(It will be fulfilled) when the stars will lose their light,

The Study Quran

So when the stars are blotted out

Talal Itani (2012)

When the stars are obliterated

Talal Itani & AI (2025)

When the stars are extinguished.

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

So when the stars are plunged.

M. Farook Malik

It is going to be fulfilled when the stars will lose their light

Dr. Kamal Omar

So, when the stars are made to lose their light

Dr. Munir Munshey

(It will occur) when the stars lose their luster

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then when the stars lose their light (and glow)

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

So when the stars are obliterate

Muhammad Sarwar

Then the stars will lose their light

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

So, when the stars will be extinguished

Shabbir Ahmed

So when the stars lose their luster. (The small groups of opponents fade away)

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So when the stars will be obliterated

Hamid S. Aziz

So when the stars are made dim

Abdel Haleem

When the stars are dimmed

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

So when stars are effaced

Ahmed Ali

When the stars are obliterated

Aisha Bewley

When the stars are extinguished,

Ali Ünal

When the stars are effaced

Ali Quli Qara'i

So when the stars are blotted out

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Then when the stars become dim

Musharraf Hussain

When the stars’ light is faded,

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

So, when the stars are wiped out

Maududi

So when the stars are extinguished

Mohammad Shafi

So when the stars are extinguished

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

So when the stars are extinguished.

Rashad Khalifa

Thus, when the stars are put out

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

When the stars are extinguished

Faridul Haque

So when the lights of the stars are put out

Bijan Moeinian

When the stars become dark

Maulana Muhammad Ali

So when the stars are made to disappear

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

So when/if the stars/planets were eliminated/effaced

Sher Ali

So when the stars are made to lose their light

Edip Yuksel

So when the stars are dimmed.

Amatul Rahman Omar

So when the small stars will be made to lose their light

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then when the light of the stars will be extinguished

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Then when the stars lose their lights

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

N J Dawood (2014)

When the stars are blotted out

Arthur John Arberry

When the stars shall be extinguished

Edward Henry Palmer

And when the stars shall be erased

George Sale

When the stars, therefore, shall be put out

John Medows Rodwell

When the stars, therefore, shall be blotted out

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Shuaib Abdullahi

So (Fa) when (Izaa) the stars (En'Nujuumu) have been obliterated (Tumisat'),

Fode Drame

Lo! When the stars are effaced.

Munir Mezyed

So When the stars are obliterated,

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Then when the stars fade,

Linda “iLHam” Barto

When the stars are smothered!

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

So when the stars are obliterated,

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

When the stars fade away,

Samy Mahdy

So when the stars are obliterated.

Ali Quli Qarai

When the stars are blotted out

Thomas Cleary

That is when the stars are extinguished

Ahmed Hulusi

When the stars are extinguished,

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Then when the stars lose their lights.

A. S. Mohamed

So when the stars are extinguished,

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

Then when the stars are extinguished

Mir Aneesuddin

So when the stars are made to disappear

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

When the stars are dimmed and emit no light,

The Wise Quran Project

So when the stars are effaced,

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Then when the stars become dim

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

So when the stars are plunged.

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

So when the stars are plunged

OLD Literal Word for Word

So when the stars are obliterated

OLD Transliteration

Fa-itha alnnujoomu tumisat

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