Surah Al-Qamar — Verse 20

The Moon · 54:20 · 20/55

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ

TanziAAu annasa kaannahumaAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAir

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.

it swept people away like uprooted palm trunks.

Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.

Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).

plucking people away, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.

Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.

which tore people away and hurled them as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.

it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted:

sweeping people away[8], as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.

Notes

[8] i.e., extracting them from the earth.

(20) Extracting the people[1581] as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.

Notes

[1581]- From their hiding places.

20. Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.