Quran 47 : 27

Then how, when take them in death the Angels, striking their faces and their backs?
فَكَيْفَ
Fakayfa
إِذَا
Iidhā
تَوَفَّتْهُمُ
Tawaffathumu
ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ
Almalaāiikahu
يَضْرِبُونَ
Yaḍribūna
وُجُوهَهُمْ
Wujūhahum
وَأَدْبَٰرَهُمْ
Waadbaārahum

Shakir

But how will it be when the angels cause them to die smiting their backs

Arthur John Arberry

How shall it be, when the angels take them, beating their faces and their backs

Samy Mahdy

So, how when the angels had deceased them, striking their faces and their backs?

Corpus.Quran

Then how when take them in death the Angels striking their faces and their backs

Talal Itani (2012)

How about when the angels take them at death, beating their faces and their backs

Mustaqim

So how will it be when the angels take them away and strike their faces and backs?

The Wise Quran

Then how when the angels take them in death, striking their faces and their backs?

Edward Henry Palmer

How will it be when the angels take their souls, smiting their faces and their backs

The Study Quran

Then how will it be when the angels seize them, striking their faces and their backs

Aisha Bewley

How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their faces and their backs?

John Medows Rodwell

But how? When the angels, in causing them to die, shall smite them on the face and back

Ahmed Ali

How will it be when the angels draw out their souls striking their faces and their backs

Abdel Haleem

How will they feel when the angels take them in death and beat their faces and their back

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

How shall it be when the angels (of death) take them and beat them on their face and back

Maulana Muhammad Ali

But how will it be when the angels cause them to die, smiting their faces and their backs

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So how will it be when the Angels take them up, striking their faces and their hind parts

Safi Kaskas

How will it be when the angels gather them in death, beating their faces and their backs?

Irving/Hegab

How will it be when the angels gather them up, beating them on their faces and their backs?

T.B.Irving

How will it be when the angels gather them up, beating them on their faces and their backs?

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

So how (is it) if the angels made them die, they strike/hit their faces and their backs/ends

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

What will it be like when the angels take their souls, striking their faces and their backs?

Bijan Moeinian

When the Angles take their souls, they will beat them on their faces and kick their rear ends

Fode Drame

So how then it will be when the angels take their souls and beat their faces and their backs.

N J Dawood 2014

What will they do when the angels carry off their souls, striking their faces and their backs

Linda "iLham" Barto

What about when angels will take their souls at death and smite their faces and their backs.

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Then how (will it be with them) when the angels gather them, smiting their faces and their backs

Dr. Munir Munshey

Imagine when the angels will take possession of their souls, slapping their faces and their backs

Wahiduddin Khan

Then how will it be when the angels take their souls, beating them on their faces and their backs

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

How then shall it be, when the angles will cause them to die, beating their faces and their backs?

Hamid S. Aziz

But how will it be when the angels take their souls in death and smite their faces and their backs

Sher Ali

But how will they fare when the angels will cause them to die, smiting their faces and their backs

Ali Ünal

So, how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, striking their faces and their backs

Bilal Muhammad 2018

But how will it be when the angels take their souls at death, and strike their faces and their backs

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

But how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, and smite their faces and their backs

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

How then shall it be when the angels shall take them away at death smiting their faces and their backs

MunirMezyed2023

Then how will it be for them when the Angels take them in death, smiting their faces and their backs?

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Then how [will it be] when the angels take them in death, striking their faces and their backs

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death, and strike their faces and their backs

Amatul Rahman Omar

But how (will they fare), when the angels cause them to die, smiting them on their faces and their backs

Faridul Haque

So how (dreadful) will it be when the angels remove their souls, striking at their faces and their backs

Munir Mezyed

Then how will it be for them when the ‘Angels’ take them in death, smiting their faces and their backs?

Bakhtiari Nejad

So, how will it (their feeling) be when the angels take their lives, hitting their faces and their backs?

Hilali - Khan

Then how (will it be) when the angels will take their souls at death, smiting their faces and their backs

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

So how will it be when their lives are terminated by the angels, while striking their faces and their backs

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Then how ˹horrible˺ will it be when the angels take their souls, beating their faces and backs!

Abdul Hye

Then what will they do when the angels will take their souls at death, striking their faces and their backs?

Ali Quli Qara'i

But how will it be [with them] when the angels take them away, striking their faces and their backs?

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

So, how (miserable) will they be when the angels will exact their souls, smiting their faces and their backs

Muhammad Asad

hence, how [will they fare] when the angels gather them in death, striking their faces and their backs

Muhammad Sarwar

How terrible it will be for them when the angels take away their souls by striking their faces and their backs

Rashad Khalifa

How will it be for them when the angels put them to death? They will beat them on their faces and their rear ends.

Maududi

But how will they fare when angels will take their souls at death and will carry them, striking their faces and backs

Mir Aneesuddin

Then how will it be when the angels will take them back (by causing them to die), striking their faces and their backs?

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Then, how will it be for them when the angels will call them to themselves, striking their faces and their backs?

Ahmed Hulusi

And how will it be when the angels take them in death (disconnect them from their bodies), striking their faces and backs?

George Sale

How therefore will it be with them, when the angels shall cause them to die, and shall strike their faces, and their backs

Mohammad Shafi

What then woud be their condition when, while the angels cause them to die, they strike at their faces and at their backs!

Dr. Kamal Omar

Then how (will they protect their integrity) when the angels will cause them to die? They will smite their faces and their backs

Musharraf Hussain

What will it be like when the angels take their souls at the time of death, and they will be striking them on their faces and backs.

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then what will be (their plight at the time) when the angels will snatch out their souls (this way) that they will be striking their faces and their backs

Shabbir Ahmed

Then how will it be when the angels gather them in death, smiting their faces and backs? (They leave the world in emotional agony for not having readied themselves for the life to come)