Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
and when heaven is laid bare
M. M. Pickthall
And when the sky is torn away
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When the world on High is unveiled
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
and when the sky is stripped away,
Safi Kaskas
when the sky is stripped away
Wahiduddin Khan
when the sky is unveiled
Shakir
And when the heaven has its covering removed
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
and when the heaven is stripped off
T.B.Irving
when the sky is stripped bare,
Abdul Hye
and when the heaven will be stripped off (taken away from its place);
The Study Quran
and when Heaven is laid bare
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
When the sky is peeled away.
Talal Itani (2012)
When the sky is peeled away
Dr. Kamal Omar
and when the heaven is stripped off
when the heaven will be stripped bare
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And when the heaven will be scraped off
Muhammad Sarwar
the heavens are unveiled
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
and when the sky will be stripped off
Shabbir Ahmed
And when the sky is unveiled. (The Space sciences advance)
Dr. Munir Munshey
And the sky is stripped bare
Syed Vickar Ahamed
When the world on High (heavens) is made visible
And when the sky is stripped awa
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
And when the sky is removed
Abdel Haleem
when the sky is stripped away
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And when the heaven shall be stripped
Ahmed Ali
The curtain drawn back from the skies
Aisha Bewley
when the Heaven is peeled away,
Ali Ünal
And when the heaven is torn away (with all the truths becoming manifest)
Ali Quli Qara'i
when the sky is stripped off
Hamid S. Aziz
And when the heavens are unveiled
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
and when the sky is removed
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
When the world on high is unveiled
Musharraf Hussain
and when a layer of the sky is peeled,
Maududi
and when Heaven is laid bare
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And when the sky is removed.
Mohammad Shafi
And when the sky is stripped off
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
And when the firmament is erased.
Munir Mezyed
When the sky is stripped away:
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
And when the sky is torn away,
Linda “iLHam” Barto
When the sky is stripped!
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
and when the sky is peeled away,
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
when the sky is stripped bare,
Samy Mahdy
And when the sky is peeled away.
Sayyid Qutb
when the sky is stripped bare,
Ahmed Hulusi
And the sky is ripped away (when the mind loses its reasoning power),
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
"and when the sky is torn off,"
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
And when the heaven shall be unveiled,
And when the heaven is erased
Mir Aneesuddin
and when the sky has its covering removed,
The Wise Quran
And when the sky is stripped off,