Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
and when the sky is rent asunder
M. M. Pickthall
And when the sky is riven asunder
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When the heaven is cleft asunder
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
and the sky is torn apart,
Safi Kaskas
the heaven is split open,
Wahiduddin Khan
and when the sky is rent asunder
Shakir
And when the heaven is rent asunder
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
and when the heaven will be cleaved asunder
T.B.Irving
when the sky splits open,
Abdul Hye
when the heaven will cleft asunder,
The Study Quran
and when the sky is riven asunder
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
And the sky is fractured.
Talal Itani (2012)
And the sky is fractured
Dr. Kamal Omar
and when the heaven is made to develop cracks
heaven will cleft asunder
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And when the heaven will be riven
Muhammad Sarwar
Heavens will rent asunder
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
and when the sky will be split
Shabbir Ahmed
And when the sky is rent asunder. (Every high tyrant is decimated)
Dr. Munir Munshey
The sky bursts asunder
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And when the heaven is torn apart
And when the heaven is opene
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
And when the sky is opened
Abdel Haleem
and the sky is torn apart
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And when the heaven is cloven asunder
Ahmed Ali
The heavens split asunder
Aisha Bewley
when heaven is split open,
Ali Ünal
And when the sky is rent asunder
Ali Quli Qara'i
and when the sky is split
Hamid S. Aziz
And when the heaven is rent asunder
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
and when the sky is split open
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
When the heaven is cleft asunder
Musharraf Hussain
when the sky is cleaved,
Maududi
and the sky is rent asunder
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And when the heaven is opened.
Mohammad Shafi
And when the sky is torn asunder
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
And when the heaven is torn apart.
Munir Mezyed
And the sky is rent asunder,
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
And the sky breaks up,
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
and when the sky is fractured,
Linda “iLHam” Barto
When the sky splits apart!
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
when the sky splits open,
Samy Mahdy
And when the sky is slit.
Thomas Cleary
and when the sky is split open,
Ahmed Hulusi
And the sky is split open,
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
And when the heaven is cleft asunder
And the heaven is split asunder
Mir Aneesuddin
and when the sky is cleft asunder,
The Wise Quran
And when the sky is opened,