Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
whereat the heavens might well-nigh be rent into fragments, and the earth be split asunder, and the mountains fall down in ruins
Arthur John Arberry
The heavens are wellnigh rent of it and the earth split asunder, and the mountains wellnigh fall down crashing fo
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin
Arabic
تَكَادُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَ ٰتُ یَتَفَطَّرۡنَ مِنۡهُ وَتَنشَقُّ ٱلۡأَرۡضُ وَتَخِرُّ ٱلۡجِبَالُ هَدًّا ٩٠
Transliteration (2021)
takādu l-samāwātu yatafaṭṭarna min'hu watanshaqqu l-arḍu watakhirru l-jibālu hadda