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Muhammad Asad
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder
Arthur John Arberry
When heaven is rent asunder
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When the sky is rent asunder
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 إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ
Transliteration-3
idhā l-samāu inshaqqat
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When the sky bursts open
Word by Word (2021)
When the sky is split asunder,
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
When the heaven is split asunder
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When the sky is rent asunder
Mustafa Khattab 2018
When the sky bursts open,
Safi Kaskas 2025
When the sky is ruptured,
Wahiduddin Khan
When the sky bursts open
Shakir
When the heaven bursts asunder
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
When the heaven was split open
T.B.Irving
When the sky will split open
Abdul Hye
When the heaven will split asunder,
Saeed Malik
When the sky is split open,
The Study Quran
When the sky is rent asunder
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
When the sky splits open.
Talal Itani (2012)
When the sky is ruptured
Dr. Kamal Omar
When the heaven developed cracks
M. Farook Malik
When heaven will split asunder
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
When the heaven will be cloven
Muhammad Sarwar
When the heavens are rent asunder
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
When the sky will split apart
Shabbir Ahmed
When the Sky is rent asunder. (The high Space will be explored and Astronomy will bring knowledge of the Cosmos)
Dr. Munir Munshey
When the sky splits apart
Syed Vickar Ahamed
When the sky is split apar
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
When the sky has split [open]
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
When the heaven is torn.
Abdel Haleem
When the sky is ripped apart
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
When the heaven is sundered
Ahmed Ali
WHEN THE SKY is cleft asunder
Aisha Bewley
When the sky bursts open,
Ali Ãœnal
When the heaven is split asunder
Ali Quli Qara'i
When the sky is split ope
Hamid S. Aziz
When the heaven is rent asunder
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
When the sky is split
Bilal Muhammad 2018
When the universe is ripped apart
Musharraf Hussain
When the sky splits open,
Maududi
When the sky is rent asunder
Mohammad Shafi
When the sky splits asunder
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
When the heaven is rent as-under.
Rashad Khalifa
The time will come when the sky is ruptured
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
When the sky is torn apart
Maulana Muhammad Ali
When the heaven bursts asunder
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
When/if the sky/space split/cracked
Bijan Moeinian
The time will come…
Faridul Haque
When the heaven breaks apart
Sher Ali
When the heaven bursts asunder
Edip Yuksel
When the sky is ruptured.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
When (all) the heavenly bodies will split asunder
Amatul Rahman Omar
When the sky bursts asunder
Hilali - Khan
When the heaven is split asunder
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
When heaven is rent asunder
George Sale
When the heaven shall be rent in sunder
Edward Henry Palmer
When the heaven is rent asunder
John Medows Rodwell
WHEN the Heaven shall have SPLIT ASUNDER
N J Dawood 2014
WHEN THE sky is rent apart
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
When (Izaa) the sky (Es'Samaau) has split up (Enshaqqat')*
Fode Drame
When the sky breaks into pieces
MunirMezyed2023
(Mention) When the sky is split asunder,
Mustaqim
When the sky splits up,
Linda "iLham" Barto
When the sky is ripped!
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
When the sky is ruptured
Irving/Hegab
When the sky will split open
Samy Mahdy
When the sky is split up.
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
When the sky is rent asunder,
Qarai
When the sky is split open
Ahmed Hulusi
When the heaven is split open,
Mubarakpuri
When the heaven is split asunder,
A. S. Mohamed
When the sky is split open,
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
"When the sky is split apart [on the Day of Resurrection],"
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
When the Sky is rent asunder
[Al-Muntakhab]
When once the heaven is split asunder
Mir Aneesuddin
When the sky is split asunder,
The Wise Quran Project
When the heaven is split,
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
When the sky is rent asunder
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
When the heaven is torn.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
When the sky is torn
OLD Word by Word
When the sky is split asunder
Transliteration
Itha alssamao inshaqqat