Quran 16 : 45

Do then feel secure those who plotted the evil deeds that will cave Allah with them the earth or will come to them the punishment from where not they perceive?
أَفَأَمِنَ
Aafaamina
ٱلَّذِينَ
Alladhīna
مَكَرُوا۟
Makarūa
ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ
Assayyiāti
أَن
Aan
يَخْسِفَ
Yakhsifa
ٱللَّهُ
Allahu
بِهِمُ
Bihimu
ٱلْأَرْضَ
Alaarḍa
أَوْ
Aaw
يَأْتِيَهُمُ
Yaatiyahumu
ٱلْعَذَابُ
Alʿadhābu
مِنْ
Min
حَيْثُ
Ḥaythu
لَا
يَشْعُرُونَ
Yashʿurūna

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Do then, those who devise evil plans not fear that Allah may sink them in the earth, or the torment may come to them from whence they know not?

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Have those who schemed evil guaranteed that God will not make the earth swallow them, or the retribution come to them from where they do not expect

Edward Henry Palmer

Are those who were so crafty in evil sure that God will not cleave open the earth with them, or bring them torment from whence they cannot perceive

Bakhtiari Nejad

Do those who plot bad (plots) feel safe from God making the earth swallow them, or the punishment coming to them from somewhere they do not realize?

Faridul Haque

So do they who conspire evils, not fear that Allah may bury them in the earth, or that the punishment may come to them from a place they do not know

T.B.Irving

Do those who plot evil deeds feel safe that God will not have the earth swallow them up, or torment come upon them from where they do not notice it?

Mustaqim

Are then those who scheme evil safe that Allah should not make the earth swallow them up or bring them the punishment from where they do not realise?

Abdel Haleem

Are those who plan evil so sure that God will not make the earth swallow them up, that punishment will not come on them from some unimagined direction

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Are they who plan ill-deeds then secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the doom will not come on them whence they know not

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Feel then they secure who have plctted vices that Allah will not sink them into the earth or that the torment may come upon them whence they perceive not

Fode Drame

Are those who take evil counsels feel safe that Allah may make the earth swallow them or that punishment may come unto them from whence they are unaware,

Irving/Hegab

Do those who plot evil deeds feel safe that Allah (God) will not have the earth swallow them up, or torment come upon them from where they do not notice it?

Musharraf Hussain

Are those who planned to do evil feeling safe from Allah’s punishment? He may order the Earth to swallow them up or send unexpected punishment,

Ali Quli Qara'i

Do those who make evil schemes feel secure that Allah will not make the earth swallow them, or the punishment will not overtake them whence they are not aware

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Do those who do evil feel secure that Allah will not make the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not fall upon them from where they do not know

Samy Mahdy

So are those who are guiling the bad deeds, secured that Allah will collapse down the earth with them, or the torment comes to them from where they do not feel.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Are they, then, who plan evil (plans), secure that Allah will not abase them in the earth, or that chastisement will not overtake them from whence they perceive not

Wahiduddin Khan

Do those who devise evil plans feel secure that God will not make them sink into the land, or that a punishment will not come upon them from where they least expect

Dr. Munir Munshey

While playing their dirty tricks, do they not worry that Allah might make the ground swallow them, or that the punishment may pounce on them from an unexpected source

N J Dawood 2014

Are those who plot evil so certain that God will not cause the earth to cave in beneath them, or that the scourge will not descend on them whence they do not perceive

Hamid S. Aziz

Are those, who devise evil plots, secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up, or that His Wrath will not seize them from whence they cannot perceive

Hilali - Khan

Do then those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allah will not sink them into the earth, or that the torment will not seize them from directions they perceive not

Mohammad Shafi

Do they then who plan evil deeds feel confident that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that punishment may not overtake them from whence they know not

Rashad Khalifa

Did those who scheme evil schemes guarantee that GOD will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the retribution will not come to them when they least expect it?

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Can those who devise evil plans really feel secure that God won’t cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment won’t come upon them whence they perceive not?

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Do those who contrive evil plots feel immune from that Allah makes them sink into the earth, or from that the punishment comes to them from where they would not perceive

Safi Kaskas

Do those who conceive evil plans feel secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that suffering will not overtake them from whence they least expect it?

Sher Ali

Do, then, those who devise evil plans, feel secure that ALLAH will humiliate them in their own land, or that the punishment will not come upon them whence they do not know

The Study Quran

Do those who have plotted evil deeds feel secure that God will not cause the earth to engulf them, or that the punishment will not come upon them whence they are not aware

The Wise Quran

Are those who plot evil deeds then secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive?

Aisha Bewley

Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon them from where they least expect?

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Were those who planned evil deeds safe that God will not cause the earth to swallow them or that the punishment will not approach them from where they are not aware?

Linda "iLham" Barto

Do those who devise evil feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the wrath will not seize them from directions that they cannot perceive?

Talal Itani (2012)

Do those who scheme evils feel secure that God will not cause the earth to cave in with them, or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Do those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them? Or that the torment will not come upon them in ways they cannot comprehend?

Abdul Hye

Do those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allah will not sink them into the earth, or that the punishment will not come to them from directions that they don’t perceive?

Corpus.Quran

Do then feel secure those who plotted the evil deeds that Allah will cave Allah will cave with them the earth or will come to them the punishment from where not they perceive

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Have these evil and deceitful people gone free of the fear that Allah may sink them into the earth, or may send them torment from (any) quarter that is beyond their imagination

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Then do those who devise harmful plans feel secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not seize them from directions they hardly expect

Ahmed Ali

Have the plotters of mischief become unafraid that God will not split the earth to swallow them, or that punishment will not fall upon them from somewhere they do not (even) suspect

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Do then those who devise evil (plots) feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up, or that the Wrath will not seize them from directions they little perceive?

Arthur John Arberry

Do they feel secure, those who devise evil things, that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the chastisement will not come upon them, from whence they are not aware

Muhammad Sarwar

Can they who have devised evil plans expect to be safe from the command of God to the earth to swallow them up, or from a torment which might strike them from an unexpected direction

Shakir

Do they then who plan evil (deeds) feel secure (of this) that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them or that punishment may not overtake them from whence they do not perceive

John Medows Rodwell

What! Are they then who have plotted mischiefs, sure that God will not cause the earth to cleave under them? or that a chastisement will not come upon them whence they looked not for it

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Then, do those who have planned evil deeds feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

Did those who cheated/deceived/schemed the sins/crimes trust that God sinks down with them the earth/Planet Earth, or the torture comes to them from where/when they do not feel/know/sense

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So, are the ones who have schemed odious (deeds) secure that Allah will (not) cause the earth to cave in with them? Or that the torment will not come up to them from where they are not aware

Munir Mezyed

Do then those who make evil plans feel secure that Allâh will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the chastisement will not come to them from directions which they never anticipate?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Do they, who have been hatching evil plots (against you), feel secure that Allah will not abase them in this very earth and that punishment will not befall them from quarters they perceive not

George Sale

Are they who have plotted evil against their prophet secure, that God will not cause the earth to cleave under them, or that a punishment will not come upon them, from whence they do not expect

Ahmed Hulusi

Do those who plan a trap by which they may do bad deeds feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them or that suffering will not come upon them from where they do not perceive?

MunirMezyed2023

Do then those who devise evil schemes feel secure that Allâh will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the chastisement will not come to them from directions which they never anticipate?

Muhammad Asad

Can, then, they who devise evil schemes ever feel sure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that suffering will not befall them without their perceiving whence [it came]?

Dr. Kamal Omar

Have they then felt secure who have plotted evils that Allah may cause the (piece of) earth sink along with them, or the punishment may come to them from the sites and directions they perceive not

Mir Aneesuddin

Then, do those who plan evil (things consider themselves) secure that Allah will (not) sink the earth with them, or that the punishment will (not) come to them from directions they do not perceive,

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then do those who make up evil (plots) feel safe that Allah will not make the earth to swallow them up, or that the Anger (of Allah) will not catch up with them from directions they are not aware of

Ali Ünal

Do they, who (in defiance of God’s grace) devise evil schemes, feel safe and secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not befall them without their perceiving whence it has come

Bijan Moeinian

Do those who oppose the Message with their evil behaviors (exemplified in persecuting the Muslims) have any guarantee that God will not let the earth to swallow them or that their punishment will not catch up with them when they least expect it

Shabbir Ahmed

Can they who devise evil schemes ever feel sure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that suffering will not befall them in ways they could least anticipate? (Such people indeed are going down in their "Self" development)

Maududi

Do those who have been devising evil plans (against the mission of the Messenger) feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that chastisement will not come upon them from a direction that they will not even be able to imagine