The Quran

سورة المؤمنون

Surah Al-Mu’minûn 23:41

The Believers · Verse 41 of 118

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ بِالْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ غُثَاءً ۚ فَبُعْدًا لِلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Then the punishment overtook them justly and rightfully and We made them as scum (of the flood), so the people who do wrong are far removed (from the mercy of God).

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Then the Blast overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves (floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong!

Ahmed Ali

So they were rightly seized by a mighty blast; and We turned them into mouldy rubbish: A good riddance of the wicked people!

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Ali Unal

So in consequence, the awful blast seized them as a judgment of God rightly fitted to their deserts, and We made them like the waste of dead plants carried by a flood and left on the coast once the water recedes. So away with the wrongdoing people!

Daryabadi

Then the shout laid hold of them in truth, and We made them a refuse; so away with the wrong-doing people!

Faridul Haque

So the true Scream seized them - We therefore made them like rotten hay; so away with the unjust people!

Maulana Muhammad Ali

So the punishment overtook them in justice, and We made them as rubbish; so away with the unjust people!

Maulvi Sher Ali

Then punishment overtook them rightfully, and WE made them as rubbish. Cursed, then, be the people who do wrong !

Muhammad Asad

And then the blast [of Our punishment) overtook them, justly and unavoidably, and We caused them to become as the flotsam of dead leaves and the scum borne on the surface of a torrent: and so away with those evildoing folk!

Muhammad Musin Khan

So As-Saihah (torment - awful cry, etc.) overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead plants. So away with the people who are Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, disobedient to His Messengers, etc.).

Muhammad Pickthall

So the (Awful) Cry overtook them rightfully, and We made them like as wreckage (that a torrent hurleth). A far removal for wrongdoing folk!

Muhammad Sarwar

A blast struck them for a just cause, and We made them look like withered leaves. God keeps the unjust people away from His mercy.

Muhammed ali Shakir

So the punishment overtook them in justice, and We made them as rubbish; so away with the unjust people.

Rashad Khalifa

The retribution struck them, equitably, and thus, we turned them into ruins. The wicked people perished.

Shabbir Ahmed

Then the blast (of requital) overtook them, justly and inevitably, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves. (11:68). And so - away with people who wronged their own ‘self’!