سورة المعَارج
Surah Al-Ma‘ârij 70:17
The Ways of Ascent · Verse 17 of 44
تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Abdul Mannan Omar
It will claim the person (for consumption) who drew back (from accepting the truth) and turned away (refusing to obey).
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Inviting (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from the Right).
Ahmed Ali
It will summon whoever turns his back and flees,
12 more translations
Ali Unal
It will call to itself those who turn their backs (on the call to faith) and turn away (from worship of God),
Daryabadi
It shall calll him who turneth back and backslideth.
Faridul Haque
It calls out to him who reverted and turned away.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
It shall claim him who retreats and turns his back,
Maulvi Sher Ali
It shall call him who turned his back and retreated,
Muhammad Asad
It will claim all such as turn their backs [on what is right], and turn away [from the truth],
Muhammad Musin Khan
Calling: " [O Kafir (O disbeliever in Allah, His angels, His Book, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection and in Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments), O Mushrik (O polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah)] (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind (on the Day of Resurrection) just as a bird picks up a food- grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up]
Muhammad Pickthall
It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
Muhammad Sarwar
and drag into it anyone who has turned away (from obeying God),
Muhammed ali Shakir
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
Rashad Khalifa
It calls on those who turned away.
Shabbir Ahmed
It calls him who turned and fled from truth.