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Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 20

سورة القمر، الآية ٢٠

54:20 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 529 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 54:20

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ ۝٢٠

Transliteration

tanziʿu l-nāsa ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin munqaʿirin

Translation

Extracting the people1581 as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.

Notes

[1581] From their hiding places.

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Verse 20 of Surah Al-Qamar (54:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 529 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 20

Al-Mukhtasar

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.

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Other translations of verse 20

sweeping people away8, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.

Notes

[8] i.e., extracting them from the earth.

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

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

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

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

Plucking up mankind as if they were the stumps of uprooted palm-trees.

Verse 20 word by word

  1. تَنزِعُ tanziʿu Plucking out ن ز ع
  2. ٱلنَّاسَ l-nāsa men أ ن س
  3. كَأَنَّهُمْ ka-annahum as if they (were)
  4. أَعْجَازُ aʿjāzu trunks ع ج ز
  5. نَخْلٍ nakhlin (of) date-palms ن خ ل
  6. مُّنقَعِرٍ munqaʿirin uprooted ق ع ر

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