Arabic Source and Roman Transliteration Arabic يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ يَقُولُونَ يَا لَيْتَنَا أَطَعْنَا اللَّهَ وَأَطَعْنَا الرَّسُولَ Transliteration Yawma tuqallabu wujoohuhum fee al nna ri yaqooloona ya laytana at aAAna Alla ha waat aAAna al rrasoola Transliteration-2 yawma tuqallabu wujūhuhum fī l-nāri yaqūlūna yālaytanā aṭaʿnā l-laha wa-aṭaʿnā l-rasūl Word for Word (The) Day will be turned about their faces in the Fire they will say, "O we wish we (had) obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!"
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Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning Muhammad Asad On the Day when their faces shall be tossed about in the fire, they will exclaim, “Oh, would that we had paid heed unto God, and paid heed unto the Apostle!&rdquo M. M. Pickthall On the day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they say: Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed His messenger Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will say: "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!" Shakir On the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire, they shall say: O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger Wahiduddin Khan On the Day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they shall say: Oh, would that we had obeyed God, and obeyed the Messenger Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar On a Day when will be turned upside down, their faces in the fire, they will say: O would that we obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger! T.B.Irving on a day when their faces will be twisted by the Fire, they will say: "If we had only obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger!" The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab On the Day their faces are ˹constantly˺ flipped in the Fire, they will cry, “Oh! If only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!” Safi Kaskas On the Day, their faces will be turned about in the Fire, and they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger." Abdul Hye On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the fire, they will say: “Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad). The Study Quran On the Day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they will say, “Oh, would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger! [The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will Say: "Oh, we wish we had obeyed God, and obeyed the messenger" Abdel Haleem On the Day when their faces are being turned about in the Fire, they will say, ‘If only we had obeyed God and the Messenger,&rsquo Abdul Majid Daryabadi On the Day whereon their faces shall be rolled in the Fire, they will say: Oh that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed the apostle Ahmed Ali The day their faces would be turned on the fire (as on a spit), they will say: "Alas! If only we had obeyed God, and obeyed the Prophet." Aisha Bewley They will say on the Day their faces are rolled over in the Fire, ´If only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!´ Ali Ünal On the Day when their faces are turned over and over in the Fire, they will exclaim, "Oh, woe to us! Would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger!" Ali Quli Qara'i The day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they will say, ‘We wish we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Apostle!&rsquo Hamid S. Aziz On the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire, they shall say, "O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!" Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali On the Day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they will say, "O, would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed the Messenger!" Muhammad Sarwar On the day when their faces will be turned from side to side on the fire, they will say, "Would that we had obeyed God and the Messenger!" Muhammad Taqi Usmani The Day their faces will be rolled in the fire, they will say, .Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger! Shabbir Ahmed On the Day when their faces shall be tossed about in the Fire, they will say, "Oh, We wish we had obeyed Allah, and obeyed the Messenger." Syed Vickar Ahamed The Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will say: "Sorrow upon us! If only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad)!" Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) The Day their faces will be turned about in the Fire, they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger." Farook Malik That Day, when their faces will roll about in the fire, they will say: "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger." Dr. Munir Munshey That day, their faces will be roasted on (an open) fire; they will say, "Alas, if only we had obeyed Allah, and had obeyed His messenger Dr. Kamal Omar The Day their faces are turned over in the Fire, they will say: “Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!” Talal A. Itani (new translation) The Day when their faces are flipped into the Fire, they will say, 'If only we had obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger.' Maududi On that Day when their faces shall be turned around in the Fire, they will say: "Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger." Ali Bakhtiari Nejad In a day that their faces are turned over in the fire, they say: we wish we had obeyed God and obeyed the messenger. A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) The day that their faces will be turned upside down in the fire they will say, “Woe to us, we wish that we had obeyed God and obeyed the messenger. Musharraf Hussain On the Day that their faces will be distorted in the Fire, they will say, “If Only we had obeyed Allah and the Messenger.” [The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will say: "Oh, we wish we had obeyed God, and obeyed the messenger" Mohammad Shafi That day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they will say, "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!"
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works Bijan Moeinian When they face the fire, they will say: “We wish that we had followed God and His Prophet.&rdquo Faridul Haque On the day when their faces will be overturned being roasted inside the fire, they will say, “Alas – if only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed His Noble Messenger!&rdquo Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah On that Day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they shall say: 'Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger! Maulana Muhammad Ali On the day when their leaders are turned back into the Fire, they say: O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger Muhammad Ahmed - Samira A day/time their faces/fronts will be turned over in the fire , they say: "Oh if only we obeyed God and we obeyed the messenger/two messengers ?" Sher Ali On the day when their faces are turned over into the fire they will say, `O, would that we had obeyed ALLAH and obeyed the Messenger ! Rashad Khalifa The day they are thrown into Hell, they will say, "Oh, we wish we obeyed GOD, and obeyed the messenger." Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) The day when their faces turning up and down will be fried in the Fire, they will say, 'Oh, would that we have obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger. Amatul Rahman Omar The day when their leaders are turned over and over into the Fire, they will say, `O would that we had obeyed Allah! would that we had obeyed the Messenger! Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri On the Day when their faces will be (repeatedly) turned over in the Fire of Hell, they will say: ‘Alas! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Holy Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him)! Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will say: "Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad SAW)."
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works Arthur John Arberry Upon the day when their faces are turned about in the Fire they shall say, 'Ah, would we had obeyed God and the Messenger Edward Henry Palmer On the day when their faces shall writhe in the fire they shall say, 'O, would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle! George Sale On the day whereon their faces shall be rolled in hell fire, they shall say, O that we had obeyed God, and had obeyed his apostle John Medows Rodwell On the day when their faces shall be rolled in the fire, they shall cry: "Oh! would that we had obeyed God, and obeyed the Apostle!" N J Dawood (2014) On the day when their heads roll about in the Fire, they shall say: ‘Would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle!&lsquo
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress Linda “iLHam” Barto [On that] day, their faces will be turned upside down in the fire. They will say, “Oh, we wish we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the messenger.” Sayyid Qutb On the day when their faces shall be tossed about in the fire, they will say: 'Would that we had obeyed God and obeyed His Messenger.' Ahmed Hulusi At the time when their faces (consciousness) are turned into fire (burning in remorse) they will say, “Woe to us! If only we had obeyed Allah; if only we had obeyed the Rasul.” Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli On the Day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they say: 'Oh! Would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed the Messenger! Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim This is a Day when their faces shall be rolled in the Fire and they shall wish they had obeyed Allah and obeyed His Messenger Mir Aneesuddin The day their faces will be turned in the fire, they will say, “O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the messenger.”
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