Surah An-Nazi'at — Verse 11

Those who drag forth · 79:11 · 11/46

أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمًا نَّخِرَةً

A-itha kunna AAithamannakhira

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

Even if we should be decayed bones?"

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

after we have turned into decayed bones?’ and they say,

Marmaduke Pickthall

Even after we are crumbled bones?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Is it when we are turned into decayed bones?”

Al-Hilali & Khan

"Even after we are crumbled bones?"

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

even after we have been reduced to bones, hollow and rotten?”

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

even though we may have become [a heap of] crumbling bones?"

Rowwad · source edition

after we have turned into decayed bones[7]?”

Notes

[7] They would say this in ridicule of the warning.