Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted. (54:20)

﴿تَنزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ﴾
[ القمر: 20]

54:20 Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.

It picked up people from the ground and threw them on their heads as if they were the trunks of date-palms uprooted from their plantations.

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

phonetic Transliteration

TanziAAu alnnasa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAirin

Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation

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

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

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

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