Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Why, then, when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man]
Arthur John Arberry
Why, but when the soul leaps to the throat of the dying
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat,
Arabic
فَلَوۡلَاۤ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلۡحُلۡقُومَ ٨٣
Transliteration (2021)
falawlā idhā balaghati l-ḥul'qūm