Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
CLOSER DRAWS unto men their reckoning: and yet they remain stubbornly heedless [of its approach]
Arthur John Arberry
Nigh unto men has drawn their reckoning, while they in heedlessness are yet turning away
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away
Arabic
۞ ٱقۡتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمۡ وَهُمۡ فِی غَفۡلَةࣲ مُّعۡرِضُونَ ١
Transliteration (2021)
iq'taraba lilnnāsi ḥisābuhum wahum fī ghaflatin muʿ'riḍūn