Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But they gave him the lie. And thereupon suffering overtook them on a day dark with shadows: and, verily, it was the suffering of an awesome day
Arthur John Arberry
But they cried him lies; then there seized them the chastisement of the Day of Shadow; assuredly it was the chastisement of a dreadful day
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But they rejected him. Then the punishment of a day of overshadowing gloom seized them, and that was the Penalty of a Great Day
Arabic
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَهُمۡ عَذَابُ یَوۡمِ ٱلظُّلَّةِۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَذَابَ یَوۡمٍ عَظِیمٍ ١٨٩
Transliteration (2021)
fakadhabūhu fa-akhadhahum ʿadhābu yawmi l-ẓulati innahu kāna ʿadhāba yawmin ʿaẓīmi