Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Removing men as if they were stumps of uprooted date-palms.

تَنْزِ عُ النَّاسَۙ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ
TanziAAu annasa kaannahumaAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAir
#wordmeaningroot
1tanziʿuPlucking outنزع
2l-nāsamenنوس
3ka-annahumas if they (were)
4aʿjāzutrunksعجز
5nakhlin(of) date-palmsنخل
6munqaʿirinuprootedقعر
  • Aisha Bewley

    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 The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Removing men as if they were stumps of uprooted date-palms.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

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

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    It snatched people away as if they were palm tree trunks; uprooted.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    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 (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    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.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

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

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    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 The Clear Quran

    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.