Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Ma'arij Verse 16

Mufti Taqi Usmani

that will pull out the skin of the scalp.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

ripping off scalps.

Ruwwad Translation Center

that will strip off the scalps.

A. J. Arberry

snatching away the scalp,

Abdul Haleem

that strips away the skin,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Flaying off the scalp-skin.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Plucking out (his being) right to the skull!-

Abul Ala Maududi

that will strip off the scalp.

Ahmed Ali

That would skin the scalp.

Ahmed Raza Khan

A fire that melts the hide.

Ali Quli Qarai

which strips away the scalp.

Ali Ünal

Tearing away the skin.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Stripping off the skin even to the extremities (of the human body).

English Literal

Pulling away/removing to the extremities/outer layer of skin .

Faridul Haque

A fire that melts the hide.

Hamid S. Aziz

Dragging him right to his skull,

Hilali & Khan

Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And hoards then withholds.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Dragging by the head,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Eager to roast;

Muhammad Sarwar

will strip-off the flesh

Qaribullah & Darwish

It snatches away by the scalps,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Nazza`ah the Shawa!

Wahiduddin Khan

stripping away his skin,

Talal Itani

It strips away the scalps.

Tafsir jalalayn

ripping out the scalp (shaw is the plural of shawt, the skin of the head);

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Nazza`ah the Shawa!

Ibn `Abbas and Mujahid both said,

"It is the skin of the head."

Al-Hasan Al-Basri and Thabit Al-Bunani both said,

"This means respectable parts of the face."

Qatadah said,
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَى
(Nazza`ahthe Shawa!)

"This means removing his important organs, and the respectable parts of his face, his creation and his limbs."

Ad-Dahhak said,

"This means it will scrape the flesh and the skin off of the bone until it leaves nothing of it remaining."

Ibn Zayd said, "The
لِّلشَّوَى
Shawa is the marrow of the bones."

As for,
نَزَّاعَةًNazza`ah Ibn Zayd said,

"It is cutting their bones and transformation of their skins and their form."

Concerning Allah's statement,

تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّى