Al-Qur'an Surah Az-Zalzalah Verse 3

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and man will say, “What has happened to it?”

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

and humanity cries, “What is wrong with it?”—

Ruwwad Translation Center

and man says, “What is the matter with it?”

A. J. Arberry

and Man says., 'What ails her?'

Abdul Haleem

when man cries, ‘What is happening to it?’;

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And man saith: what aileth her?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And man cries (distressed); 'What is the matter with her?'-

Abul Ala Maududi

and man will cry out: “What is the matter with her?”

Ahmed Ali

And man enquires: "What has come over it?"

Ahmed Raza Khan

And man says, “What has happened to it?”

Ali Quli Qarai

and man says, ‘What is the matter with her?’

Ali Ünal

And human cries out, "What is the matter with it?" –

Amatul Rahman Omar

And when a person will say (in bewilderment at the extraordinary happenings on the earth), `What is the matter with her?´

English Literal

And the human/mankind said: "What (is) for it (what is wrong with it)?"

Faridul Haque

And man says, “What has happened to it?”

Hamid S. Aziz

And man shall say, "What ails her!"

Hilali & Khan

And man will say: "What is the matter with it?"

Maulana Mohammad Ali

On that day she will tell her news,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And man says: What has befallen her?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And man saith: What aileth her?

Muhammad Sarwar

the human being will say (in horror), "What is happening to it?"

Qaribullah & Darwish

and the human asks: "What is the matter with it?"

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And man will say: "What is the matter with it"

Wahiduddin Khan

when man asks, "What is happening to her?";

Talal Itani

And man says, “What is the matter with it?”

Tafsir jalalayn

and man, the disbeliever in resurrection, says, `What is wrong with it?' -- in denial of that situation.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And man will say;"What is the matter with it"

meaning, he will be baffled by its situation after it used to be stable, settled and firm, and he used to be settled upon its surface.

This refers to the alteration of the state of things and the earth moving and shaking. There will come to it inescapable quaking that Allah prepared for it. Then it will throw out its dead people -- from the first to the last generations. At that time the people will be baffled by the events and the earth changing into other than the earth, and the heavens as well. Then they will be presented before Allah, the One, the Irresistible.

Concerning Allah's statement,

يَوْمَيِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا