Surah Hud — Verse 82

Hud · 11:82 · 82/123

فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَـٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ

Falamma jaa amrunajaAAalna AAaliyaha safilahawaamtarna AAalayha hijaratanmin sijjeelin mandood

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

And so when what We had ordained came about, We turned their town upside down and rained down stones of baked clay on it, layer upon layer,

Marmaduke Pickthall

So when Our commandment came to pass We overthrew (that township) and rained upon it stones of clay, one after another,

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

When Our Decree issued, We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer,-

Mufti Taqi Usmani

So, when Our command came to pass, We turned their habitations upside down, and rained on it stones of hard clay, one over another

Al-Hilali & Khan

So when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked clay, in a well-arranged manner one after another;

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

And when Our command came to pass, We turned the town upside down, and rained on it stones of baked clay, one on another,

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

And so, when Our judgment came to pass, We turned those [sinful towns] upside down, and rained down upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained. one upon another,