The Quran

سورة الاٴعرَاف

Surah Al-A‘râf 7:91

The Elevated Places · Verse 91 of 206

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Then they were caught in an earthquake and the morning found them lying prostrate on the ground in their habitations.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning!

Ahmed Ali

Then they were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned on the ground in their homes in the morning.

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Ali Unal

Then a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate and lifeless in their very dwellings –

Daryabadi

Whereupon an earthquake laid hold of them: so that they lay prone in their dwelling.

Faridul Haque

Therefore the earthquake seized them - so at morning they remained lying flattened in their homes.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

So the earthquake overtook them, and they were motionless bodies in their abode --

Maulvi Sher Ali

So the earthquake seized them and in their homes they lay prostrate upon the ground;

Muhammad Asad

Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground"-

Muhammad Musin Khan

So the earthquake seized them and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.

Muhammad Pickthall

So the earthquake seized them and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.

Muhammad Sarwar

Suddenly, an earthquake struck them and left them motionless in their homes.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Then the earthquake overtook them, so they became motionless bodies in their abode.

Rashad Khalifa

The quake annihilated them, leaving them dead in their homes.

Shabbir Ahmed

A tremendous earthquake seized them and the morning found them dead in their homes, on the ground.