Arabic Source and Roman Transliteration Arabic يَوْمَ يَأْتِ لَا تَكَلَّمُ نَفْسٌ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ فَمِنْهُمْ شَقِيٌّ وَسَعِيد Transliteration Yawma ya/ti la takallamu nafsun illa bi-ith nihi faminhum shaqiyyun wasaAAeedin Transliteration-2 yawma yati lā takallamu nafsun illā bi-idh'nihi famin'hum shaqiyyun wasaʿīdu Word for Word (The) Day (it) comes not will speak a soul except by His leave. Then among them (will be the) wretched, and (the) glad.
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Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning Muhammad Asad When that Day comes, not a soul will speak. unless it be by His leave; and of those [that are gathered together], some will be wretched and some, happy M. M. Pickthall On the day when it cometh no soul will speak except by His permission; some among them will be wretched, (others) glad Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) The day it arrives, no soul shall speak except by His leave: of those (gathered) some will be wretched and some will be blessed Shakir On the day when it shall come, no soul shall speak except with His permission, then (some) of them shall be unhappy and (others) happy Wahiduddin Khan and when that Day arrives, no soul shall speak but by His leave. Among those some shall be damned, and others shall be blessed Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar On the Day it approaches no person will assert anything but with His permission. Then, among them will be the disappointed and the happy. T.B.Irving The day it comes, no soul will speak up except with His permission. Some of them will feel miserable while [others] will be happy. The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab When that Day arrives, no one will dare speak except with His permission. Some of them will be miserable, others joyful. Safi Kaskas When that Day comes, not a soul will speak except by His permission. Some will be miserable, and some will be blessed. Abdul Hye When the Day will come, no one will speak except by His permission. Some among them will be wretched and others blessed. The Study Quran On the Day it comes, no soul shall speak save by His Leave. Among them shall be the wretched and the felicitous [The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) On the Day it comes, no person will speak to another except by His leave. Some of them will be distraught, some will be happy Abdel Haleem and when that Day comes, no soul will speak except by His permission, and some of them will be wretched and some happy Abdul Majid Daryabadi The day it cometh no soul shall speak save by His leave: then of them some shall be wretched and some blessed Ahmed Ali The day it comes no soul will dare say a word but by His leave; and some will be wretched, some will be blessed Aisha Bewley On the Day it comes, no self will speak except by His permission. Some of them will be wretched and others glad. Ali Ünal On the Day when it comes no one will speak unless by His leave. Among those (gathered together) some are wretched and some happy Ali Quli Qara'i The day it comes, no one shall speak except by His leave. [On that day,] some of them will be wretched and [some] felicitous Hamid S. Aziz The Day when it comes, no soul shall speak save by His permission, and some shall be wretched and some glad Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali The Day it comes up, no self will speak except by His permission. So (some) of them are wretched, and (some) happy Muhammad Sarwar On the Day of Judgment no one will speak without the permission of God. Some will be condemned and others blessed Muhammad Taqi Usmani The day it comes no one shall speak except by His leave. So, some of them will be wretched and (some) blessed Shabbir Ahmed On the Day, when it comes, no one will speak except by His Leave. Some of them will be miserable, others glad. (The miserable ones will get deprived of the blessings, and the glad ones will enjoy all the bounties of the eternal life (36:59)) Syed Vickar Ahamed On the Day when it arrives, no person shall speak except by His Permission: From those (brought up) some will be miserable and (some will be) blessed Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) The Day it comes no soul will speak except by His permission. And among them will be the wretched and the prosperous Farook Malik When the Day will come, no one shall dare to speak except with His permission. Of them, some will be damned and some will be blessed Dr. Munir Munshey On the day that is sure to come, no soul will utter a word without His permission. Some amongst them would be mournful, others jubilant Dr. Kamal Omar The day it comes, no Nafs shall talk except under His permission. So out of them is one who is extremely disturbed and one who is happily satisfied Talal A. Itani (new translation) On the Day when it arrives, no soul will speak without His permission. Some will be miserable, and some will be happy Maududi And when the appointed Day comes, no one shall even dare to speak except by the leave of Allah. Then some will be declared wretched, others blessed. Ali Bakhtiari Nejad A day (when) it comes, no one speaks except with His permission, then some of them are unfortunate and some are fortunate A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) The day it arrives, no soul will speak except by His permission. Of those, some will feel agony and some will feel blessed Musharraf Hussain That day, when it comes, not a soul will speak without His permission, and some of them will be miserably sad whilst others will be happy. [The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) On the Day it comes, no person will speak except with His permission. Some of them will be distraught, some will be happy. Mohammad Shafi The day when it is convened, no one shall speak except with His permission. Some of them then shall be miserable, and some happy
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works Bijan Moeinian On that Day none will be able to speak without the Lord’s permission. Some will be miserable and some will be happy Faridul Haque When that day comes, no one will speak without His permission; so among them are the ill-fated and the fortunate Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah When that Day arrives no soul shall speak except by His permission. Some shall be wretched, and others happy Maulana Muhammad Ali On the day when it comes, no soul will speak except by His permission; so (some) of them will be unhappy and (others) happy Muhammad Ahmed - Samira (When that) day comes, a self does not speak/talk except with His permission, so from them (are people) miserable/unhappy and happy/fortunate Sher Ali On the day it comes, no soul shall speak except by HIS permission; then some of them will be unfortunate and other fortunate Rashad Khalifa The day it comes to pass, no soul will utter a single word, except in accordance with His will. Some will be miserable, and some will be happy. Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) When that Day will come, no one will speak save by the leave of God. Then any one of them is unfortunate, and any one of them is fortunate. Amatul Rahman Omar The day it comes, no soul shall speak save by His leave; (on that day) some will turn out wretched and (others) fortunate Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri When that Day comes, not a soul will be able to speak without His permission. Then some of them will be unfortunate and others fortunate Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali On the Day when it comes, no person shall speak except by His (Allahs) Leave. Some among them will be wretched and (others) blessed
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works Arthur John Arberry the day it comes, no soul shall speak save by His leave; some of them shall be wretched and some happy Edward Henry Palmer The day when it shall come no soul shall speak save by His permission, and amongst them (shall be) the wretched and the glad George Sale When that day shall come, no soul shall speak to excuse it self, or to intercede for another, but by the permission of God. Of them one shall be miserable, and another shall be happy John Medows Rodwell When that day shall come no one shall speak a word but by His leave, and some shall be miserable and others blessed N J Dawood (2014) When that day is come, no soul shall speak but by His leave. Some shall be damned, and some shall be blessed
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress Linda “iLHam” Barto The day that (the Day of Resurrection) comes, no soul shall speak except by His will. Of those [assembled], some will be condemned, and some will be blessed. Sayyid Qutb When that day comes, not a soul will speak except by His leave. Some among them will be wretched, and some happy. Ahmed Hulusi When that period begins, no one will be able to speak except by His permission! Of them, some are wretched (faithless; befitting eternal hell) and some happy (believer; befitting eternal Paradise). Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli The day(when)it comes, no soul shall speak but by His leave. Then some of them shall be wretched, and some happy. Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim And when it -this Day-comes, trembling shall be so great that no one can utter a word but at Allah's command. Some sinking in a sea of misery and some rejoicing beyond a common joy Mir Aneesuddin The day when it comes, no soul will be able to speak except by His permission. Then of them (some) will be wretched while others blessed.
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