Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
[It will come to pass] on the Day when the skies will be convulsed in [a great] convulsion
M. M. Pickthall
On the day when the heaven will heave with (awful) heaving
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
on the Day the heavens will be shaken violently,
Safi Kaskas
On the Day heaven sways with agitation
Wahiduddin Khan
on the Day when the skies are convulsed
Shakir
On the day when the heaven shall move from side to sid
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
On a Day when the heaven will spin a spinning
T.B.Irving
on a day when the sky will shift about
Abdul Hye
On the Day when the heaven will shake with a dreadful shaking
The Study Quran
On a day when the sky churns with [great] churning
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
On the Day when the heavens sways in agitation.
Talal Itani (2012)
On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation
Dr. Kamal Omar
The Day the heaven trembles in a dreadful shahead of state
On that Day, heaven will shake violentl
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
The Day when the heaven whirls with (awful) whirling
Muhammad Sarwar
On the day when the heavens will swiftly fl
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
the Day when the sky will tremble, a horrible trembling
Shabbir Ahmed
On the day when the high elite will be shaken, and shaken well. ('Sama' = Sky, heaven, height, top and elite)
Dr. Munir Munshey
The sky, that day, would rock and reel fiercely
Syed Vickar Ahamed
On the Day when the sky will swing in terrible fear
On the Day the heaven will sway with circular motio
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
The Day when the sky will violently thunder
Abdel Haleem
on the Day when the sky sways back and fort
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
On the Day whereon the heaven will shake with an awful shaking
Ahmed Ali
The day the sky will tremble
Aisha Bewley
On the Day when heaven sways to and fro
Ali Ünal
On that Day the heaven will be convulsed violently
Ali Quli Qara'i
On the day when the sky whirls violently
Hamid S. Aziz
On the day when the heaven shall heave with awful commotion
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
The day when the sky swings back and forth,
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
On the day that the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
Musharraf Hussain
Even the sky will shudder and judder that Day,
Maududi
(It shall come to pass) on the Day when the heaven will convulse in a great convulsion
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
The Day when the heaven will violently thunder.
Mohammad Shafi
When the sky [Universe] tremble
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
The day when the heaven will shake with awful shaking.
The day will come when the sky will violently thunder.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Upon the Day when the heaven spins dizzil
Maulana Muhammad Ali
On the day when the heaven will be in a state of commotion
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
A day/time the sky/space agitates/moves from side to side quickly (in) agitation/quick movement from side to side
Bijan Moeinian
On the day that the heaven will move from…
Faridul Haque
A day on which the heavens will shake with a visible shaking
Sher Ali
On the day when the heaven will be in a state of terrific commotion
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
The Day when the heaven will shake with a terrible tremor
Amatul Rahman Omar
The day the sky shall reel and rock (in a state of terrific commotion)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
On the Day when the heaven will shake with a dreadful shaking
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
On the day when the heaven will gyrate a complete gyrating.
Munir Mezyed
On the day when the sky will fluctuate with a dreadful fluctuation
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
On the day the sky will sway.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
[It will be] the day when the sky will be in dreadful commotion.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
on the day when the sky sways in agitation
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
on a day when the sky will shift about
Samy Mahdy
On a Day when the heaven sways in violently swaying.
Ahmed Hulusi
At that time, the heaven (consciousness) will be bewildered!
Mir Aneesuddin
The day the sky will whirl (with a) whirl
A day shall come when the heaven sways from side to side in dreadful, commotion
The Wise Quran
On the day the heaven will reel, reeling,