The Quran

سورة الحَاقَّة

Surah Al-Hâqqah 69:16

The Great Inevitable Reality · Verse 16 of 52

وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And the heaven will cleave asunder for it will have become frail on that day.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,

Ahmed Ali

The sky will cleave asunder on that day and fall to pieces.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And the sky split asunder, and so, on that Day it will be most frail,

Daryabadi

And the heaven shall be rent in sunder, it on that Day shall be frail.

Faridul Haque

And the heaven will split asunder - so on that day it will be unstable.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And the heaven will be cleft asunder; so that day it will be frail,

Maulvi Sher Ali

And the heaven will cleave asunder, and it will be very frail that day.

Muhammad Asad

and the sky will be rent asunder - for, frail will it have become on that Day - ;

Muhammad Musin Khan

And the heaven will split asunder, for that Day it (the heaven will be frail (weak), and torn up,

Muhammad Pickthall

And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.

Muhammad Sarwar

and the heavens will be rent asunder, and will turn frail, losing all force.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,

Rashad Khalifa

The heaven will crack, and fall apart.

Shabbir Ahmed

And when the sky will be rent asunder, so frail will it be that Day.