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Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 31

سورة القمر، الآية ٣١

54:31 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 530 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 54:31

إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ ۝٣١

Transliteration

innā arsalnā ʿalayhim ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fakānū kahashīmi l-muḥ'taẓiri

Translation

Indeed, We sent upon them one shriek [i.e., blast from the sky], and they became like the dry twig fragments of an [animal] pen.

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Verse 31 of Surah Al-Qamar (54:31), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 530 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 31

Al-Mukhtasar

I sent on them a single blast which destroyed them and they became like dry trees that are used by a person who makes a fence for his sheep.

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Other translations of verse 31

We sent against them a single blast, leaving them like trampled hedge-building twigs13.

Notes

[13] The people of Thamūd were crushed like trampled and trodden twigs and pieces of bush lying around an enclosure for cattle.

Verily, We sent against them a single Saihah (torment - awful cry), and they became like the stubble of a fold-builder.

Lo! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle-fold.

For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.

Surely We sent upon them a single cry, so they were like the dry fragments of trees which the maker of an enclosure collects.

Surely We sent against them one Shout; so they were as the chaff of a pen-builder.

Verse 31 word by word

  1. إِنَّآ innā Indeed, We
  2. أَرْسَلْنَا arsalnā [We] sent ر س ل
  3. عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim upon them
  4. صَيْحَةً ṣayḥatan thunderous blast ص ي ح
  5. وَٰحِدَةً wāḥidatan single و ح د
  6. فَكَانُوا۟ fakānū and they became ك و ن
  7. كَهَشِيمِ kahashīmi like dry twig fragments ه ش م
  8. ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ l-muḥ'taẓiri (used by) a fence builder ح ظ ر

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