Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | Why, then, when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man] |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat, | |
Shakir | | Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Why, then, when the soul of the dying man reaches the throat | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Then, why not intervene when it reached the wind-pipe | |
| T.B.Irving | | Why not -when [your soul] leaps to your throat [at death] | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Why then ˹are you helpless˺ when the soul ˹of a dying person˺ reaches ˹their˺ throat, | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Why then, when the soul at death reaches the throat, | |
| Abdul Hye | | Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat | |
| The Study Quran | | Why, then, when it reaches the throat | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | So when the time comes and it reaches your throat | |
Abdel Haleem | | When the soul of a dying man comes up to his throa | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Wherefore then - when the soul cometh up to the wind-pipe | |
Ahmed Ali | | Then how is it that when the (dying) breath is withdrawn into the throat (and rattles) | |
Aisha Bewley | | Why then, when death reaches his throat | |
Ali Ünal | | Then, how is it you do not – when the soul comes up to the throat (of a dying human) | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | So when it reaches the throat [of the dying person] | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Why then do you not (intervene) when the soul comes up to the throat (of a dying person) | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Then had it been that, when (the self) (i.e., the self of the dying person) reaches the gullet (of the dying) | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | Why can you not help a soul dyin | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | So why (do you) not (intervene) when the soul (of a dying person) reaches the throat | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | Why, then, as the last breath comes up to the throat | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throa | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Then why, when the soul at death reaches the throa | |
Farook Malik | | Why is it not then that when you see a dying person’s soul come up to his throa | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | How about when (the soul of the dying) heaves up into the throat | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Then why don’t (you intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) has reached the throat | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | So when it has reached the throat | |
Maududi | | Why, then, when the soul leaps up to the throat | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | So why not when it (life) reaches the throa | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Then why do you not intervene when the soul reaches the throat | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | Why, then, when a dying person’s last breath comes to the throat, you can’t return it? | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | So when the time comes and it reaches your throat. | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Why not then, when the last breath [of a dying man] comes up to the throat | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | When [the moment of death arrive and] the soul reaches the throat | |
| Faridul Haque | | So why was it not, when the soul reaches up to the throat, | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | Why, then, when the soul leaps up to the throat of the dyin | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Why is it not then that when it comes up to the throat | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | So if only that the throat/pharynx (the death) reached | |
Sher Ali | | Why, then, when the soul of the dying man reaches the throat | |
Rashad Khalifa | | When the time comes and it (your soul) reaches your throat - | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Why then it was not when the soul reaches to the throat. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | Why, then, when the soul (of the dying person) reaches the throat | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Then why do you not (make the soul return) when it reaches the throat (to pass away) | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat | |
