Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Waqi'ah Verse 61

Mufti Taqi Usmani

from replacing you with others like you, and creating you (afresh) in that (form) which you do not know.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

from transforming and recreating you in forms unknown to you.

Ruwwad Translation Center

from transforming you and recreating you in forms that you do not know.

A. J. Arberry

that We may exchange the likes of you, and make you to grow again in a fashion you know not.

Abdul Haleem

if We intended to change you and recreate you in a way unknown to you.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

That We may substitute others like Unto you and produce you into that which ye know not.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

from changing your Forms and creating you (again) in (forms) that ye know not.

Abul Ala Maududi

Had We so wished, nothing could have hindered Us from replacing you by others like yourselves, or transforming you into beings you know nothing about.

Ahmed Ali

From replacing you with others or raising you in a way you do not know.

Ahmed Raza Khan

In the matter of exchanging you for others, and to transform you into what you do not know.

Ali Quli Qarai

from replacing you with your likes and recreating you in [a realm] you do not know.

Ali Ünal

So that We may replace you (with new generations like you), and bring you about in a new mode and form of existence you do not know.

Amatul Rahman Omar

From replacing you with beings similar to you, (or from) evolving you into a form which is unknown to you (at present).

English Literal

On that We exchange/replace similar/equal to you, and We create/originate you in what you do not know.

Faridul Haque

In the matter of exchanging you for others, and to transform you into what you do not know.

Hamid S. Aziz

That We may transfigure you and make you grow into what you know not.

Hilali & Khan

To transfigure you and create you in (forms) that you know not.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you and make you grow into what you know not.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

That We may transfigure you and make you what ye know not.

Muhammad Sarwar

in replacing you with another creation like you, changing you into a form which you do not know.

Qaribullah & Darwish

that We will change you and cause you to grow again in a way you do not know.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

To transfigure you and create you in (forms) that you know not.

Wahiduddin Khan

from replacing you by others like yourselves or changing your forms and re-creating you in forms that you know nothing of.

Talal Itani

In replacing you with your likes, and transforming you into what you do not know.

Tafsir jalalayn

replacing [you with], [We are not incapable of] appointing, your likes, in your place, and making you, creating you, in what you do not know, in the way of forms, such as apes or swine.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

عَلَى أَن نُّبَدِّلَ أَمْثَالَكُمْ

To transfigure you,

meaning, `to change your current shapes, on the Day of Resurrection,'

وَنُنشِيَكُمْ فِي مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ



and create you in that you know not.

meaning, `out of shapes and forms.'

Allah the Exalted said,

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ النَّشْأَةَ الاُْولَى فَلَوْلَا تَذكَّرُونَ