[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And the sky will be torn, and on that Day it will be flimsy
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy
Wahiduddin Khan
And the sky will be rent asunder, for on that Day it will be so frail
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm
The Wise Quran
And the sky split asunder, so it is on that day unsound,
The Study Quran
the sky shall be rent asunder; for that Day it shall be frail
Talal Itani (2012)
And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
And the sky will split apart; on that Day, it will be frail.
T.B.Irving
The sky will split open and seem flimsy that day;
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And the sky will be split apart, for that Day will be flimsy and torn apart
Sher Ali
And the heaven will cleave asunder, and it will be very frail that day
Shakir
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail
Shabbir Ahmed
And when the sky will be rent asunder, such that frail will it be that Day
Samy Mahdy
And the sky was splitting; so, on that Day it will be friable.
Safi Kaskas
The heaven will split open on that Day, since it will be so frail.
Rashad Khalifa
The heaven will crack, and fall apart.
N J Dawood 2014
The sky will be rent asunder on that day, frail and tottering,
Mustaqim
And the sky will break up and be fragile that day.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail,
Musharraf Hussain
the sky will be split apart, looking flimsy.
MunirMezyed2023
The heavens will split asunder and become frail on that day
Munir Mezyed
The heavens will split asunder and become frail on that day
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
and the sky will burst apart, while it will have become frail on that day
Muhammad Sarwar
and the heavens will be rent asunder
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And the heaven will be cloven. So, upon that Day it will be (very) frail
Muhammad Asad
and the sky will be rent asunder - for, frail will it have become on that Day -
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
And the sky/space split away/cut open , so it is (on) that day cracked/weak
Mohammad Shafi
And the sky will be rent asunder, so it becomes loose that Day
Mir Aneesuddin
And the sky will be split asunder, so that day it will be weak .
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And the heaven will be cleft asunder; so that day it will be frail
Maududi
when the sky will be rent asunder, the grip holding it together having loosened on that Day
Linda "iLham" Barto
The sky will rip apart, for on that day, it will be dilapidated.
John Medows Rodwell
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, for on that day it shall be fragile
Irving/Hegab
The sky will split open and seem flimsy that day;
Hilali - Khan
And the heaven will split asunder, for that Day it (the heaven will be frail (weak), and torn up
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
The heaven will be split; because on that Day it will be frail
Hamid S. Aziz
And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that Day it shall be frail
George Sale
and the heavens shall cleave in sunder, and shall fall in pieces, on that day
Fode Drame
And the sky turns apart Lo! On that day it will be untenable.
Faridul Haque
And the heaven will split asunder - so on that day it will be unstable
Edward Henry Palmer
and the heaven on that day shall be cleft asunder, for on that day shall it wane
Dr. Munir Munshey
Feeble and frail, on that day the sky shall burst asunder
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And (all) the heavenly bodies will split apart and this universe will come to comprise (black) holes (by means of a force which coordinates and keeps the system going).
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
and the heaven will be split. For on that day they will be as ones who are frail,
Dr. Kamal Omar
And the heaven has developed cracks, so this Day it is torn-up
Corpus.Quran
And will split the heaven so it (is on) that Day frail
Bilal Muhammad 2018
And the universe will be rent asunder, for it will be flimsy that day
Bijan Moeinian
The Day on which the [ozone layer of the] sky will crack and the cosmos will loose its order
Bakhtiari Nejad
and the sky splits, then on that day it (the sky) is weak,
Arthur John Arberry
and heaven shall be split, for upon that day it shall be very frail
Amatul Rahman Omar
And the heaven will cleave asunder for it will have become frail on that day
Ali Ünal
And the sky split asunder, and so, on that Day it will be most frail
Ali Quli Qara'i
and the sky will be split open —for it will be frail that day—
Aisha Bewley
and Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
And the heaven will cleave as-under, then on the day it will be in a miserable condition.
Ahmed Hulusi
And the sky (the sense of self, identity) will be split apart, for at that time it will be frail!
Ahmed Ali
The sky will cleave asunder on that day and fall to pieces
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And the heaven shall be rent in sunder, it on that Day shall be frail
Abdul Hye
and the heaven will split asunder, and for that Day it (heaven) will be frail and torn up.
Abdel Haleem
The sky will be torn apart on that Day, it will be so frail