Al-Qur'an Surah Ar-Rum Verse 14

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And the day when the Hour (Qiyāmah : the Day of Judgement)) will take place-it will be on that day that they will turn into separate groups.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And on the Day the Hour will arrive, the people will then be split ˹into two groups˺.

Ruwwad Translation Center

On the Day when the Hour begins, the people will then be separated:

A. J. Arberry

Upon the day when the Hour is come, that day they shall be divided;

Abdul Haleem

When the Hour arrives, on that Day people will be separated:

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

On the Day whereon the Hour arriveth, that Day they shall be separated.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

On the Day that the Hour will be established,- that Day shall (all men) be sorted out.

Abul Ala Maududi

On that Day when the Hour will come to pass, people will be split into groups.

Ahmed Ali

The day the Hour comes they will be separated into categories.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And on the Last Day – that day they will all separate.

Ali Quli Qarai

The day the Hour sets in, they will be divided on that day [in separate groups]:

Ali Ünal

When the Last Hour stands forth (and the Judgment is established) – on that Day all people will be separated from one another.

Amatul Rahman Omar

And day when the Hour (of Reckoning) will arrive on that day they (the virtuous and the sinful) will be sorted out (into different groups).

English Literal

And a day/time the Hour/Resurrection starts , (on) that day they separate.

Faridul Haque

And on the Last Day – that day they will all separate.

Hamid S. Aziz

And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with Allah, and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.

Hilali & Khan

And on the Day when the Hour will be established, that Day shall (all men) be separated (i.e. the believers will be separated from the disbelievers).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the day when the Hour comes, the guilty will despair.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And at the time when the hour shall come, at that time they shall become separated one from the other.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

In the day when the Hour cometh, in that day they will be sundered.

Muhammad Sarwar

When that day comes, (people) will be separated from one another.

Qaribullah & Darwish

On the Day when the Hour has come, they will be divided,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And on the Day when the Hour will be established -- that Day shall they be separated.

Wahiduddin Khan

When the Last Hour dawns -- on that Day they will be sorted out:

Talal Itani

On the Day when the Hour takes place—on that Day they will separate.

Tafsir jalalayn

And on the Day when the Hour comes, that day (yawma'idhin, is [repeated] for emphasis) they, believers and disbelievers, shall be separated.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And on the Day when the Hour will be established -- that Day shall (all men) be separated.

Qatadah said;

"By Allah, this refers to the separation after which there will be no reunion."

In other words, if one person is taken up to the highest heights and another is sent down to the lowest depths of Hell, that is the last they will ever see of one another.

Allah says;

فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ امَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَهُمْ فِي رَوْضَةٍ يُحْبَرُونَ