Al-Qur'an Surah Az-Zalzalah Verse 4

Mufti Taqi Usmani

That day it will describe all its happenings,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

on that Day the earth will recount everything,

Ruwwad Translation Center

On that Day it will recount all its news,

A. J. Arberry

upon that day she shall tell her tidings

Abdul Haleem

on that Day, it will tell all

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

On that Day she will tell out the tidings thereof.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

On that Day will she declare her tidings;

Abul Ala Maududi

On that Day it will relate all her news,

Ahmed Ali

That day it will narrate its annals,

Ahmed Raza Khan

On that day earth will narrate its news,

Ali Quli Qarai

On that day she will relate her chronicles

Ali Ünal

On that day she will recount all its tidings,

Amatul Rahman Omar

That day she will relate all her news (pertaining to every action done in secret on it).

English Literal

That day it tells/informs (about) its news/information/knowledge.

Faridul Haque

On that day earth will narrate its news,

Hamid S. Aziz

On that day she shall tell her tidings,

Hilali & Khan

That Day it will declare its information (about all what happened over it of good or evil).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

As if thy Lord had revealed to her.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

On that day she shall tell her news,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

That day she will relate her chronicles,

Muhammad Sarwar

On that day the earth will declare all (the activities of the human being) which have taken place on it,

Qaribullah & Darwish

On that Day it shall proclaim its news,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

That Day it will declare its information.

Wahiduddin Khan

on that Day it will narrate its account,

Talal Itani

On that Day, it will tell its tales.

Tafsir jalalayn

On that day (yawma'idhin substitutes for, and is the response to, idh, `when') it shall relate its chronicles, it shall inform of the good and evil deeds committed in it,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

That Day it will declare its information.

meaning, it will speak of what the people did upon its surface.

Imam Ahmad, At-Tirmidhi and Abu `Abdur-Rahman An-Nasa'i all recorded a Hadith from Abu Hurayrah -- and in the wording of An-Nasa'i's version it states -- that he said, "The Messenger of Allah recited this Ayah,
يَوْمَيِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
(That Day it will declare its information.) Then he said, Do you know what is its information?

They said, `Allah and His Messenger know best.'

He said,

فَإِنَّ أَخْبَارَهَا أَنْ تَشْهَدَ عَلَى كُلِّ عَبْدٍ وَأَمَةٍ بِمَا عَمِلَ عَلَى ظَهْرِهَا أَنْ تَقُولَ عَمِلَ كَذَا وَكَذَا يَوْمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَهَذِهِ أَخْبَارُهَا

Verily, its information is that it will testify against every male and female servant, about what they did upon its surface. It will say that he did such and such on such and such day.

So this is its information."

At-Tirmidhi said, "This Hadith is Sahih Gharib."

Concerning Allah's statement,

بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَى لَهَا