Surah Al Qamar ayat 20 Tafsir Quran 54:20

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

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

tearing people away wrenching them from the holes in the ground in which they had been embedded and flinging them down to the ground head first thereby crushing their necks and severing their heads from their bodies as if they were while lying in this mentioned state trunks of uprooted palm-trees severed and thrown on the ground — they are likened to palm-trees because of their tallness nakhlun ‘palm-trees’ is masculine here but feminine in sūrat al-Hāqqa nakhlun khāwiya ‘fallen down or hollow palm-trees’ Q. 697 in order to harmonise with the end-rhyme of the verses in both instances.

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

The Story of ` Ad Allah states that ` Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did. So, Allah sent on them, عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً صَرْصَراً ( against them a violently cold (Sarsar ) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind, فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ ( on a day of calamity ), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi, مُّسْتَمِرٌّ ( continuous ), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter, تَنزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ ( Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. ) The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground.
His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless, كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍفَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ ( as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.
Then, how was My torment and My warnings And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember )

The Story of ` Ad Allah states that ` Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did. So, Allah sent on them, عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً صَرْصَراً ( against them a violently cold (Sarsar ) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind, فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ ( on a day of calamity ), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi, مُّسْتَمِرٌّ ( continuous ), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter, تَنزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ ( Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. ) The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground.
His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless, كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍفَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ ( as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.
Then, how was My torment and My warnings And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember )

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

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

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