أَوْ Or aw like a rainstorm kaṣayyibin from mina the sky l-samāi in it (are) fīhi darkness[es] ẓulumātun and thunder waraʿdun and lightning wabarqun They put yajʿalūna their fingers aṣābiʿahum in fī their ears ādhānihim from mina the thunderclaps l-ṣawāʿiqi (in) fear (of) ḥadhara [the] death l-mawti And Allah wal-lahu (is) [the One Who] encompasses muḥīṭun the disbelievers bil-kāfirīna
Or [it is] like a rainstorm from the sky within which is darkness, thunder and lightning. They put their fingers in their ears against the thunderclaps in dread of death. But Allāh is encompassing1 of the disbelievers.