Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qari'ah Verse 9

Mufti Taqi Usmani

-his abode will be Abyss.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

their home will be the abyss.

Ruwwad Translation Center

his abode will be the abyss.

A. J. Arberry

shall plunge in the womb of the Pit.

Abdul Haleem

will have the Bottomless Pit for his home––

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

His dwelling shall be the Abyss.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.

Abul Ala Maududi

his shall be the deep pit for a dwelling.

Ahmed Ali

Will have the Abyss for abode.

Ahmed Raza Khan

He is in the lap of one that abases.

Ali Quli Qarai

his home will be the Abyss.

Ali Ünal

He will have his home in a bottomless pit,

Amatul Rahman Omar

The abyss (- Gehenna) shall then be a (nursing) mother to him (till the souls are completely cleansed of the taint of sin and they are reborn).

English Literal

So his origin (is) Hell/destruction .

Faridul Haque

He is in the lap of one that abases.

Hamid S. Aziz

His mother will be the Bereft and Hungry One.

Hilali & Khan

He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And what will make thee know what that is?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

His abode shall be the abyss.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,

Muhammad Sarwar

will have hawiyah as their dwelling.

Qaribullah & Darwish

his head will be in the Plunging

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

His mother will be Hawiyah.

Wahiduddin Khan

the Abyss shall be his home.

Talal Itani

His home is the Abyss.

Tafsir jalalayn

his home will be the Abyss.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

His mother will be Hawiyah.

It has been said that this means he will be falling and tumbling headfirst into the fire of Hell, and the expression `his mother' has been used to refer to his brain (as it is the mother of his head).

A statement similar to this has been reported from Ibn Abbas, Ikrimah, Abu Salih and Qatadah.

Qatadah said,

"He will fall into the Hellfire on his head."

Abu Salih made a similar statement when he said,

"They will fall into the Fire on their heads."

It has also been said that it means his mother that he will return to and end up with in the Hereafter will be Hawiyah, which is one of the names of the Hellfire.

Ibn Jarir said,

"Al-Hawiyah is only called his mother because he will have no other abode except for it."

Ibn Zayd said,

"Al-Hawiyah is the Fire, and it will be his mother and his abode to which he will return, and where he will be settled."

Then he recited the Ayah,
وَمَأْوَاهُمُ النَّار
(Their abode will be the Fire.) (3;151)

Ibn Abi Hatim said that it has been narrated from Qatadah that he said,

"It is the Fire, and it is their abode."

Thus, Allah says in explaining the meaning of Al-Hawiyah,

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ