The Quran

سورة القَمَر

Surah Al-Qamar 54:20

The Moon · Verse 20 of 55

تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

It (- the howling wind) tore the people away as though they were the hollowed stumps of uprooted palm-trees.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

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

Ahmed Ali

Which snatched away men as though they were palm trees pulled out by the roots.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

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

Daryabadi

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

Faridul Haque

Smashing down men as if they were uprooted trunks of date palms.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Tearing people away as though they were the hollow trunks of uprooted palm-trees.

Muhammad Asad

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

Muhammad Musin Khan

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

Muhammad Pickthall

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

Muhammad Sarwar

which hurled people around like uprooted trunks of palm-trees.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.

Rashad Khalifa

It tossed the people around as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.

Shabbir Ahmed

Tossing people around like empty, uprooted palm-trunks.