فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلرَّجۡفَةُ فَأَصۡبَحُواْ فِي دَارِهِمۡ جَٰثِمِينَ ٧٨
So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
Word by word
Each word's meaning and sound
- فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُSo seized themfa-akhadhathumu
- ٱلرَّجۡفَةُthe earthquakel-rajfatu
- فَأَصۡبَحُواْthen they becamefa-aṣbaḥū
- فِيinfī
- دَارِهِمۡtheir homesdārihim
- جَٰثِمِينَfallen pronejāthimīna
Tafsir
When the punishment the disbelievers had asked for arrived, and they were taken by a great earthquake, so that in the morning they lay fallen, their faces and knees on the earth, none of them escaping from the destruction.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran