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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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
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.
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.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Qamar
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
إِنَّآ
innā Indeed, We
أَرْسَلْنَا
arsalnā [We] sent ر س ل
عَلَيْهِمْ
ʿalayhim upon them
صَيْحَةً
ṣayḥatan thunderous blast ص ي ح
وَٰحِدَةً
wāḥidatan single و ح د
فَكَانُوا۟
fakānū and they became ك و ن
كَهَشِيمِ
kahashīmi like dry twig fragments ه ش م
ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ
l-muḥ'taẓiri (used by) a fence builder ح ظ ر
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 4872
{فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ} الآيَةَ.
Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd
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Surah Al-Qamar
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55 verses · Meccan