Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qamar Verse 16

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Then how was My torment and My warnings?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Then how ˹dreadful˺ were My punishment and warnings!

Ruwwad Translation Center

Then how were My punishment and My warnings?

A. J. Arberry

How then were My chastisement and My warnings?

Abdul Haleem

How [terrible] was My punishment and [the fulfilment of] My warnings!

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

So how dreadful have been My torment and My warning!

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?

Abul Ala Maududi

So how awesome were My chastisement and My warnings!

Ahmed Ali

How was then My punishment and My commination!

Ahmed Raza Khan

So how did My punishment turn out, and My threats?

Ali Quli Qarai

So how were My punishment and warnings?

Ali Ünal

But see how (severe) was My punishment and (how true) My warnings!

Amatul Rahman Omar

Then (behold!) how terrible was My punishment and (how true) My warning!

English Literal

So how was My torture and My warnings/notices?

Faridul Haque

So how did My punishment turn out, and My threats?

Hamid S. Aziz

How great was then My punishment after My warning!

Hilali & Khan

Then how (terrible) was My Torment and My Warnings?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Then We opened the gates of heaven with water pouring down.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Then see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!

Muhammad Sarwar

How terrible was My torment and the result of (their disregard) of My warning.

Qaribullah & Darwish

How then were My punishment and My warnings!

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Then how (terrible) was My torment and My warnings

Wahiduddin Khan

How terrible then was My punishment and My warning.

Talal Itani

So how were My punishment and My warnings?

Tafsir jalalayn

How [dreadful] then were My chastisement and My warnings? (this is an interrogative meant as an affirmative; kayfa, `how', is the predicate of kna, `was', and it is here being used to inquire about a `state'; the intention is to prompt those who are being addressed to affirm the fact that God's chastisement of those who denied Noah was fully deserved).

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Then how (terrible) was My torment and My warnings?

means, `how terrible was My torment that I inflicted on those who disbelieved in Me and denied My Messengers, who did not heed to My warnings How was My help that I extended to My Messengers and the revenge exerted on their behalf,