سورة الفُرقان
Surah Al-Furqân 25:13
The Standard of Truth and Falsehood · Verse 13 of 77
وَإِذَا أُلْقُوا مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا
Abdul Mannan Omar
And when they are thrown into some narrow place of it, chained in fetters, they will call out for (total) destruction, there and then.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will pLead for destruction there and then!
Ahmed Ali
And when they are cast within a narrow space of it chained together, they would plead for death.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
And when they are flung, chained together, into a narrow place in it, they will pray there for extinction.
Daryabadi
And when they are flung into a strait place thereof, bound Up, they shall call therein unto death.
Faridul Haque
And when they are thrown into a narrow place in it, bound in chains, they will pray for death in it.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And when they are cast into a narrow place thereof in chains, they will there pray for destruction.
Maulvi Sher Ali
And when they are thrown into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they will pray there for destruction.
Muhammad Asad
and when they are flung, linked [all) together, into a tight space within, they will pray for extinction there and then!
Muhammad Musin Khan
And when they shall be thrown into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they will exclaim therein for destruction.
Muhammad Pickthall
And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there.
Muhammad Sarwar
When they are thrown, bound, into a narrow place therein, then only will they wish for their death.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound, they shall there call out for destruction.
Rashad Khalifa
And when they are thrown into it, through a narrow place, all shackled, they will declare their remorse.
Shabbir Ahmed
And when they are flung into a narrow space linked together in chains, they will pray for extinction there and then. (Distress of Hell is constricting while the bliss of Paradise is Spacious.
Commentary 25:13 While explaining the verse “when they are thrown into some narrow place (مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا) of it, chained in fetters” Zamakhsharî writes, “Distress is…
وَإِذَا أُلْقُوا مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا
25:13 While explaining the verse “when they are thrown into some narrow place (مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا) of it, chained in fetters” Zamakhsharî writes, “Distress is accompanied by a feeling of constriction, contraction, squeezing and narrowness, just as happiness is accompanied by a feeling of spaciousness. That is why the Holy Qur’ân describes Paradise being as vast as the heavens and the earth” (3:133; see also 14:49).