Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground
Arthur John Arberry
So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning
Arabic
فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلرَّجۡفَةُ فَأَصۡبَحُوا۟ فِی دَارِهِمۡ جَـٰثِمِینَ ٧٨
Transliteration (2021)
fa-akhadhathumu l-rajfatu fa-aṣbaḥū fī dārihim jāthimīn