Al-Qur'an Surah Adh-Dhariyat Verse 36

Mufti Taqi Usmani

but We did not find in it any Muslims, except one house.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

But We only found one family that had submitted ˹to Allah˺.[[ Lot (ﷺ) and his two daughters. ]]

Ruwwad Translation Center

but We only found in it one Muslim household [Lot's family].

A. J. Arberry

but We found not therein except one house of those that have surrendered themselves.

Abdul Haleem

We found only one household devoted to God-

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And We found not therein more than one house of the Muslims.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But We found not there any just (Muslim) persons except in one house;

Abul Ala Maududi

– and We did not find there any, apart from a single house of Muslims –

Ahmed Ali

But did not find more than a single family of believers.

Ahmed Raza Khan

We therefore found just one house over there that was Muslim.

Ali Quli Qarai

but We did not find there other than one house of Muslims,

Ali Ünal

But We did not find there any but a single house of Muslims (those wholly submitted to God).

Amatul Rahman Omar

But infact We found there only a single house of those who had submitted (to Us, and that was the house of Lot).

English Literal

So We did not find in it other than (a) house/home from the submitters/Moslems .

Faridul Haque

We therefore found just one house over there that was Muslim.

Hamid S. Aziz

But We found not therein but one house of those who had Surrendered (Muslims).

Hilali & Khan

But We found not there any household of the Muslims except one [i.e. Lout (Lot) and his two daughters].

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Then we brought forth such believers as were there.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

But We did not find therein save a (single) house of those who submitted (the Muslims).

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

But We found there but one house of those surrendered (to Allah).

Muhammad Sarwar

but We found only one Muslim house.

Qaribullah & Darwish

But We found in it only one household of those who had surrendered themselves,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

But We found not there any household of the Muslims except one.

Wahiduddin Khan

We found in it only one household of true believers --

Talal Itani

But found in it only one household of Muslims.

Tafsir jalalayn

but We did not find therein other than one house of those who had submitted [to God]; these were Lot and his two daughters. They have been described [here] with [the terms] `belief' and `submission' because they had affirmed [faith] in their hearts and used their limbs to perform acts of obedience.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

But We found not there any household of the Muslims except one.

Allah the Exalted said,

وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَا ايَةً لِّلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ الْعَذَابَ الاَْلِيمَ