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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 25:13 | |
| < 25:14 25:12 > |
| Transliteration | Wa-itha olqoo minha makanan dayyiqan muqarraneena daAAaw hunalika thubooran |
| Literal | And if they were thrown from it (to) a narrow/tight place/position tied to each other, at that time and place they called (for) destruction and grief . |
| Yusuf Ali | And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will pLead for destruction there and then! |
| Pickthal | And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there. |
| Arberry | And when they are cast, coupled in fetters, into a narrow place of that Fire, they will call out there for destruction. |
| Shakir | And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound, they shall there call out for destruction. |
| Sarwar | When they are thrown, bound, into a narrow place therein, then only will they wish for their death. |
| Khalifa | And when they are thrown into it, through a narrow place, all shackled, they will declare their remorse. |
| Hilali/Khan | And when they shall be thrown into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they will exclaim therein for destruction. |
| H/K/Saheeh | And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein bound in chains, they will cry out thereupon for destruction. |
| Malik | And when, chained together, they are flung into some narrow space, they will fervently plead for death.[13] |
| QXP | And when they are flung into a narrow space linked together in chains, they will plead for extinction there and then. (Distress of Hell is constricting while the Bliss of Paradise is Spacious (3:133). |
| Maulana Ali | And when they are cast into a narrow place thereof in chains, they will there pray for destruction. |
| Free Minds | And when they are cast into it from a tight crevice, in chains, they call out their remorse. |
| Qaribullah | And when, chained in (iron) fetters, they are cast into some narrow space of the Fire, they will call out for destruction. |
| George Sale | And when they shall be cast bound together into a strait place thereof, they shall there call for death: |
| JM Rodwell | And when they shall be flung into a narrow space thereof bound together, they shall invoke destruction on the spot: |
| Asad | and when they are flung, linked [all] together, into a tight space within, they will pray for extinction there and then! [For a tentative explanation of the allegory of the sinners' being "linked together" in hell, see my note on 14:49. As regards the "tight space" into which they will be flung, Zamakhshari remarks: "Distress is accompanied by [a feeling of] constriction, just as happiness is accompanied by [feeling of] spaciousness; and because of this, God has described paradise as being `as vast as the heavens and the earth' [3:133]." |
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