54. Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 20
تَنْزِ عُ النَّاسَۙ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ
TanziAAu annasa kaannahumaAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAir
It plucked up men like uprooted stumps.
- Progressive Muslims
It uprooted the people as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Tossing people around like empty, uprooted palm-trunks.
- Sam Gerrans
Removing men as if they were stumps of uprooted date-palms.
- The Monotheist Group
It uprooted the people as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
- Edip-Layth
It snatched people away as if they were palm tree trunks; uprooted.
- Aisha Bewley
It plucked up men like uprooted stumps.
- Rashad Khalifa
It tossed the people around as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Which snatched away men as though they were palm trees pulled out by the roots.
- Sahih International
Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
- Muhammad Asad
it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted:
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Setting people flying and springing upon the ground with violence, plucking towns out and leaving nothing standing as if they were palm- trees torn up by the roots.
- Bijan Moeinian
The storm was tossing people around as though they were decayed palm tree trunks.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
- Mustafa Khattab
that snatched people up, leaving them like trunks of uprooted palm trees.
- Taqi Usmani
plucking people away, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
- Abdul Haleem
it swept people away like uprooted palm trunks.
- Arthur John Arberry
plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees.
- E. Henry Palmer
It reft men away as though they had been palm stumps torn up!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees uprooted.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Plucking up mankind as if they were the stumps of uprooted palm-trees.
- George Sale
It carried men away, as though they had been roots of palm-trees forcibly torn up.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
- Amatul Rahman Omar
It (- the howling wind) tore the people away as though they were the hollowed stumps of uprooted palm-trees.
- Ali Quli Qarai
knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.