And We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay. (Al-Hijr [15] : 74)
1 Mufti Taqi Usmani
Then, We turned it (the city) upside down and rained down upon them stones of baked clay.
2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And We turned the cities ˹of Sodom and Gomorrah˺ upside down and rained upon them stones of baked clay.
3 Ruwwad Translation Center
and We turned their cities upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
4 A. J. Arberry
and We turned it uppermost nethermost and rained on it stones of baked clay.
5 Abdul Haleem
We turned their city upside down and rained on them a shower of clay stones.
6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay.
7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
8 Abul Ala Maududi
and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.
9 Ahmed Ali
And We turned the city upside down, and rained on them stones of hardened lava.
10 Ahmed Raza Khan
And We turned the township upside down and rained upon them stones of heated clay.
11 Ali Quli Qarai
and We made its topmost part its nethermost, and rained on them stones of shale.
12 Ali Ünal
And We turned them (the sinful towns) upside down, and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
13 Amatul Rahman Omar
We turned it (- the city) upside down, and rained upon the people petrified hard stones of clay (constantly).
14 English Literal
So We made its highest/elevated , its lowest/bottom, and We rained on them stones of dry and hardened mud
15 Faridul Haque
And We turned the township upside down and rained upon them stones of heated clay.
16 Hamid S. Aziz
And We turned their cities upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay
17 Hilali & Khan
And We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
18 Maulana Mohammad Ali
So the cry overtook them at sunrise;
19 Mohammad Habib Shakir
Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed.
20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay.
21 Muhammad Sarwar
We turned the town upside-down and showered on them lumps of baked clay.
22 Qaribullah & Darwish
We laid it (the city) upside down and rained stones of baked clay upon them.
23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
And We turned them upside down and rained stones of baked clay upon them.
24 Wahiduddin Khan
We turned the town upside down and rained upon them stones of clay.
25 Talal Itani
And We turned it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of baked clay.
26 Tafsir jalalayn
And We made their, that is, their cities', topmost part their nethermost, by Gabriel's raising them [the cities] to the heaven and dropping them face down onto the earth, and We rained on them stones of baked clay, clay baked in fire.
27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir
And We turned them upside down and rained stones of baked clay upon them.
The discussion of As-Sijjil in Surah Hud is a sufficient explanation.
Allah said;
إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لايَاتٍ لِّلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ
28 Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
And We turned those cities -Sodom and Gomorrah- upside down and rained them with fire and successional brimstones as hard as baked clay