Comparative Study
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1  Turn to your Lord ˹in repentance˺, and ˹fully˺ submit to Him before the punishment reaches you, ˹for˺ then you will not be helped.  Dr. Mustafa Khattab

2  Hence, turn towards your Sustainer [alone] and surrender yourselves unto Him ere the suffering [of death and resurrection] comes upon you, for then you will not be succoured.   Muhammad Asad

3  And turn to your Lord, and submit to Him, before the retribution comes upon you. Then you will not be helped.  Talal Itani

4  Turn to your Lord and surrender yourselves to Him before the chastisement over-takes you; for then you will receive no help.  Maududi

5  And turn in repentance and in obedience with true Faith (Islamic Monotheism) to your Lord and submit to Him, (in Islam), before the torment comes upon you, then you will not be helped.  Muhsin Khan

6  Turn to your Lord. Submit to Him before the punishment overtakes you and you can no longer be helped.  Muhammad Abdel Haleem

7  Be penitent to your Lord and submit to Him before the punishment approaches you. Again, you will not be helped.  Dr.Leila Bakhtiar

8  Turn unto Him repentant, and surrender unto Him, before there come unto you the doom, when ye cannot be helped.  Marmaduke Pickthall

9  And return [in repentance] to your Lord and submit to Him before the punishment comes upon you; then you will not be helped.  Sahih Int.

10  "Turn ye to our Lord (in repentance) and bow to His (Will), before the Penalty comes on you: after that ye shall not be helped.  Yusuf Ali

11  and turn to your lord and submit to him before [that] comes to you the punishment; then not you will be helped.  Word by Word