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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 25:14 | |
| < 25:15 25:13 > |
| Transliteration | La tadAAoo alyawma thubooran wahidan waodAAoo thubooran katheeran |
| Literal | Do not call today (for) one destruction and grief , and call (for) many destruction(s) (and) grief(s). |
| Yusuf Ali | "This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction oft-repeated!" |
| Pickthal | Pray not that day for one destruction, but pray for many destructions! |
| Arberry | 'Call not out today for one destruction, but call for many!' |
| Shakir | Call not this day for one destruction, but call for destructions many. |
| Sarwar | They will be told, "Do not pray to die only once but pray to die many times." |
| Khalifa | You will not declare just a single remorse, on that day; you will suffer through a great number of remorses. |
| Hilali/Khan | Exclaim not today for one destruction, but exclaim for many destructions. |
| H/K/Saheeh | [They will be told], Do not cry this Day for one destruction but cry for much destruction. |
| Malik | But they will be told: "Do not plead for one death today, but plead for many deaths."[14] |
| QXP | This Day plead not for a single extinction, but plead for repeated (revivals and) extinctions. (Therein they merely survive, neither living nor dying (14:17), (20:74), (87:13). |
| Maulana Ali | Pray not this day for destruction once but pray for destruction again and again. |
| Free Minds | Do not call out one remorse today, but call out many remorses. |
| Qaribullah | 'Do not call out today for one destruction; call out for many destructions. ' |
| George Sale | But it shall be answered them, call not this day for one death, but call for many deaths. |
| JM Rodwell | #VALUE! |
| Asad | [But they will be told:] "Pray not today for one single extinction, but pray for many extinctions!" [Although the concept of "extinction" (thubur) implies finality and is, therefore, unrepeatable, the sinners' praying for "many extinctions" is used here as a metonym for their indescribable suffering and a corresponding, indescribable desire for a final escape.] |
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