Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
drink it as the most insatiably thirsty camels drink!”
M. M. Pickthall
Drinking even as the camel drinketh
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"Indeed ye shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!"
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
and you will drink ˹it˺ like thirsty camels do.”
Safi Kaskas
drinking it like thirsty camels.
Wahiduddin Khan
You shall drink it as the thirsty camels drink
Shakir
And drink as drinks the thirsty camel
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
So you will be ones who drink like the drinking of thirsty camels.
T.B.Irving
lapping it up, the way thirsty [camels] drink."
Abdul Hye
yet, you will drink like thirsty camels!”
The Study Quran
drinking as do parched camels
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Drinking as parched camels do.
Talal Itani (2012)
Drinking like thirsty camels drink.
Dr. Kamal Omar
then are about to drink in the style of the drinhead of state act of a thirsty (camel)
yet you shall drink it like a thirsty camel."
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
So you will be drinking (like) the drinking of diseased camels wandering with thirst."
Muhammad Sarwar
like a thirsty camel"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
and to drink like camels suffering from the disease of over-thirst
Shabbir Ahmed
And indeed drink as the camel with false thirst drinks." (Greed could never give you inner contentment (26:225), (102:1-2)
Dr. Munir Munshey
"Which you will drink like a thirst stricken camel!"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
"Indeed you shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!"
And will drink as the drinking of thirsty camels
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
"So you will drink like thirsty camels!"
Abdel Haleem
lapping it like thirsty camels.’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Drinkers even as the drinking of thirsty camels
Ahmed Ali
Lapping it up like female camels raging of thirst with disease."
Aisha Bewley
slurping like thirst-crazed camels.
Ali Ünal
You will drink as the camel raging with thirst drinks
Ali Quli Qara'i
drinking like thirsty camels.’
Hamid S. Aziz
"And drink as drinks the thirsty camel."
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
and drinking as thirsty camels drink.”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
“Indeed you will drink like thirsty camels.
Musharraf Hussain
you’ll drink it like thirsty camels.”
Maududi
drinking it as thirsty camels do."
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
"So you will drink like diseased camels!"
Mohammad Shafi
And drink it as thirsty camels do
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
And you will drink like the drinking of a wandering camel.
Munir Mezyed
Gulping it like thirsty camels".
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
And drink mad with thirst.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
“You will drink like thirsty camels.”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
thus drinking as a thirst-mad camel drinks."
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
lapping it up, the way thirsty [camels] drink."
Samy Mahdy
So you will drink like the thirsty camels drinking.
Ahmed Hulusi
And you will drink it like the drinking of thirsty camels that are unable to quench their thirsts due to their afflictions.
Mir Aneesuddin
and you will drink (as) a thirsty camel drinks.
" The sensation of thirst shall force you to drink more but like unhealthy camels, you shall be always thirsty"
The Wise Quran
And drink, the drinking of thirsty camels.