The Quran

سورة الحِجر

Surah Al-Hijr 15:74

The Rock · Verse 74 of 99

فَجَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

We turned it (- the city) upside down, and rained upon the people petrified hard stones of clay (constantly).

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.

Ahmed Ali

And We turned the city upside down, and rained on them stones of hardened lava.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And We turned them (the sinful towns) upside down, and rained down on them stones of baked clay.

Daryabadi

And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay.

Faridul Haque

And We turned the township upside down and rained upon them stones of heated clay.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Thus We turned it upside down and rained upon them hard stones.

Maulvi Sher Ali

`We turned their town upside down and WE rained upon them stones of clay.

Muhammad Asad

and We turned those [sinful towns} upside down, and rained down upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained.

Muhammad Musin Khan

And We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.

Muhammad Pickthall

And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay.

Muhammad Sarwar

We turned the town upside-down and showered on them lumps of baked clay.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed.

Rashad Khalifa

We turned it upside down, and showered them with devastating rocks.

Shabbir Ahmed

We turned the towns upside down and showered upon them hard heated rocks.