The Quran

سورة الکهف

Surah Al-Kahf 18:8

The Place of Refuge · Verse 8 of 110

وَإِنَّا لَجَاعِلُونَ مَا عَلَيْهَا صَعِيدًا جُرُزًا

Abdul Mannan Omar

Yet it is We Who shall (one day) reduce all that is on it to a barren soil.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Verily what is on earth we shall make but as dust and dry soil (without growth or herbage).

Ahmed Ali

For We shall certainly turn it to barren dust.

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Ali Unal

Yet We surely reduce whatever is on it to a barren dust-heap, (and will do so when the term of trial ends).

Daryabadi

And verily We are going to make whatsoever is thereon a soil bare.

Faridul Haque

And indeed We shall one day make all that is on it a barren plain.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And We shall surely make what is on it dust, without herbage.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And WE shall destroy all that is thereon and make it a barren soil.

Muhammad Asad

and, verily, [in time] We shall reduce all that is on it to barren dust!

Muhammad Musin Khan

And verily! We shall make all that is on it (the earth) a bare dry soil (without any vegetation or trees, etc.).

Muhammad Pickthall

And lo! We shall make all that is thereon a barren mound.

Muhammad Sarwar

Let it be known that We will turn all things on earth into dust.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And most surely We will make what is on it bare ground without herbage.

Rashad Khalifa

Inevitably, we will wipe out everything on it, leaving it completely barren.

Shabbir Ahmed

We shall reduce all that is on earth to barren dust!

Commentary 18:8 The verse under comment and the one preceding it direct our attention to the transitory nature of the fleeting embellishments and finery of this life.…

وَإِنَّا لَجَاعِلُونَ مَا عَلَيْهَا صَعِيدًا جُرُزًا

18:8 The verse under comment and the one preceding it direct our attention to the transitory nature of the fleeting embellishments and finery of this life. They also imply a prophecy that the nations of the West, after acquiring great wealth and strength and luxuries, would transform the earth into barren soil, a dust without herbage (cf: 17:58).