Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And [then,] the twilight of death brings with it the [full] truth that [very thing, O man,] from which thou wouldst always look away! –
Arthur John Arberry
And death's agony comes in truth; that is what thou wast shunning
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And the stupor of death will bring Truth (before his eyes): "This was the thing which thou wast trying to escape!"
Arabic
وَجَاۤءَتۡ سَكۡرَةُ ٱلۡمَوۡتِ بِٱلۡحَقِّۖ ذَ ٰلِكَ مَا كُنتَ مِنۡهُ تَحِیدُ ١٩
Transliteration (2021)
wajāat sakratu l-mawti bil-ḥaqi dhālika mā kunta min'hu taḥīd