Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Ma'arij Verse 9

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and the mountains will be like dyed wool,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

and the mountains like ˹tufts of˺ wool.

Ruwwad Translation Center

and the mountains will be like dyed wool,

A. J. Arberry

and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts,

Abdul Haleem

and the mountains like tufts of wool,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And then the mountains shall become like Unto wool dyed.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And the mountains will be like wool,

Abul Ala Maududi

and the mountains will become like dyed tufts of wool,

Ahmed Ali

The mountains like the tufts of (carded) wool,

Ahmed Raza Khan

And the hills will be light as wool.

Ali Quli Qarai

and the mountains like [tufts of] dyed wool,

Ali Ünal

And the mountains will be like multi-colored tufts of wool.

Amatul Rahman Omar

And the mountains shall become like flakes of multicoloured wool.

English Literal

And the mountains become like the wool/dyed wool.

Faridul Haque

And the hills will be light as wool.

Hamid S. Aziz

And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

Hilali & Khan

And the mountains will be like flakes of wool,

Maulana Mohammad Ali

(Though) they are made to see them. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by his children,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

Muhammad Sarwar

and the mountains become like wool,

Qaribullah & Darwish

and the mountains shall be like puffs of wool.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And the mountains will be like `Ihn.

Wahiduddin Khan

and the mountains will become like tufts of wool,

Talal Itani

And the mountains will be like tufted wool.

Tafsir jalalayn

and the mountains will be as flakes of wool, in terms of [their] lightness and [their] floating about in the wind.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And the mountains will be like `Ihn.

meaning, like fluffed wool.

This was said by Mujahid, Qatadah and As-Suddi.

This Ayah is similar to Allah's statement,

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ

And the mountains will be like carded wool. (101;5)

Concerning Allah's statement,

وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا