It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed, (Al-Qari'ah [101] : 4)
1 Mufti Taqi Usmani
(It will happen) on a day when people will be like scattered moths,
2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
˹It is˺ the Day people will be like scattered moths,
3 Ruwwad Translation Center
On that Day people will be like scattered moths,
4 A. J. Arberry
The day that men shall be like scattered moths,
5 Abdul Haleem
On a Day when people will be like scattered moths
6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi
A Day whereon mankind shall become as moths scattered,
7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
8 Abul Ala Maududi
On that Day human beings shall be like scattered moths,
9 Ahmed Ali
A Day on which human beings would be like so many scattered moths,
10 Ahmed Raza Khan
The day when men will be like scattered moths.
11 Ali Quli Qarai
[It is] the day when mankind will be like scattered moths
12 Ali Ünal
The day (when it occurs) humans will be like moths scattered about;
13 Amatul Rahman Omar
On that day people shall be (in great confusion and distress) like moths scattered,
14 English Literal
A day/time the people be/become like the butterflies, the scattered/ravished
15 Faridul Haque
The day when men will be like scattered moths.
16 Hamid S. Aziz
The day when men shall be like scattered moths
17 Hilali & Khan
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about,
18 Maulana Mohammad Ali
And the mountains will be as carded wool.
19 Mohammad Habib Shakir
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly-scattered moths
21 Muhammad Sarwar
On that day, people will be like scattered moths
22 Qaribullah & Darwish
On that Day people shall become like scattered moths
23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
24 Wahiduddin Khan
[It is] a Day when mankind shall be like scattered moths
25 Talal Itani
The Day when the people will be like scattered moths.
26 Tafsir jalalayn
The day (yawma; that which renders it accusative is [the verb] indicated by al-qri`a, in other words, [by the implied] taqra`u, `it clatters') mankind will be like scattered moths, like a throng of scattered locusts surging into each other in confusion, until they are summoned to the Reckoning,
27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
meaning, in their scattering, their dividing, their coming and their going, all due to being bewildered at what is happening to them, they will be like scattered moths.
This is like Allah's statement,
كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُّنتَشِرٌ
As if they were locusts spread abroad. (54;7)
Allah said,
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ
28 Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
People will be like moths scattered about
القرآن الكريم - القارعة١٠١ :٤ Al-Qari'ah 101:4 calamity