The Quran

سورة النُّور

Surah Al-Nûr 24:24

The Light · Verse 24 of 64

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

On the Day (of Requital) when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them for the (evil) deeds they used to do.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their actions.

Ahmed Ali

The day their tongues and hands and feet bear witness to what they had done,

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Ali Unal

On the Day when their own tongues and hands and feet will all bear witness against them in regard to what they were doing.

Daryabadi

On the Day whereon their tongues and their hands and their feet will bear witness against them regarding that which they were wont to work.

Faridul Haque

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet will testify against them, regarding what they used to do.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet bear witness against them as to what they did,

Maulvi Sher Ali

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do;

Muhammad Asad

on the Day when their own tongues and hands and feet will bear witness against them by [recalling] all that they did!

Muhammad Musin Khan

On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs or feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.

Muhammad Pickthall

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do,

Muhammad Sarwar

on the day when their tongues, hands, and feet will testify to what they had done.

Muhammed ali Shakir

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

Rashad Khalifa

The day will come when their own tongues, hands, and feet will bear witness to everything they had done.

Shabbir Ahmed

The Day when their tongues, their hands and their feet will testify against them about all that they did.

Commentary 24:24 Here it is indicated that every word spoken, every movement of our hands, feet, or other parts of the body, leaves some imprint that is invisible to us…

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

24:24 Here it is indicated that every word spoken, every movement of our hands, feet, or other parts of the body, leaves some imprint that is invisible to us but is fully preserved and will be given an embodied form in the next life. That way the hands and limbs will testify about us, favourably or unfavourably.