Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 38:15 | |
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Transliteration | Wama yanthuru haola-i illa sayhatan wahidatan ma laha min fawaqin |
Literal | And those do not look/see/watch except (for) one loud strong cry/torture raid, (there is) nothing from (a) recovery/awakening for it. |
Yusuf Ali | These (today) only wait for a single mighty Blast, which (when it comes) will brook no delay. |
Pickthal | These wait for but one Shout, there will be no second thereto. |
Arberry | These are only awaiting for a single Cry, to which there is no delay. |
Shakir | Nor do these await aught but a single cry, there being no delay in it. |
Sarwar | They had only to wait for the single inevitable blast. |
Khalifa | These people can expect a single blow, from which they never recover. |
Hilali/Khan | And these only wait for a single Saihah (shout (i.e. the blowing of the Trumpet by the angel Israfil Sarafil)) there will be no pause or ending thereto (till everything will perish except Allah (the only God full of Majesty, Bounty and Honour)). |
H/K/Saheeh | And these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay. |
Malik | These people also await nothing but a single mighty Blast - the one which none may retard.[15] |
QXP | Now these people only wait a single Blast from which they recover not. |
Maulana Ali | And these wait but for one cry, wherein there is no delay. |
Free Minds | And what these people are waiting for is a single scream, from which they will not recover. |
Qaribullah | These only wait for a single Shout for which there will be no delay. |
George Sale | And these wait only for one sounding of the trumpet; which there shall be no deferring. |
JM Rodwell | And these (Meccans) await but one single trumpet blast-There shall be no delaying it- |
Asad | And they [who now deny the truth - they, too,] have but to wait for one single blast [of punishment to overtake them]: it shall not be delayed a whit. [Sc., "beyond the term set for it by God".] |
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