Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted
Arthur John Arberry
plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground)
Arabic
تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلࣲ مُّنقَعِرࣲ ٢٠
Transliteration (2021)
tanziʿu l-nāsa ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin munqaʿiri