| فَمَا زَالَتْ تِلْكَ دَعْوَاهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَاهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَامِدِينَ |
| Asad | : | And that cry of theirs did not cease until We caused them to become [like] a field mown down, still and silent as ashes. |
| Malik | : | They kept on repeating that statement till We mowed them down, leaving no spark of life in them. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | They kept repeating their cry until We mowed them down, ˹leaving them˺ lifeless.1 |
| Pickthall | : | And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And that cry of theirs ceased not till We made them as a field that is mown as ashes silent and quenched. 2675 |
| Transliteration | : | Fama zalat tilka daAAwahum hatta jaAAalnahum haseedan khamideena |
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The two similes present two different aspects of the lamentation of the ungodly. When they really see the Wrath to come, there is a stampede, but where can they go to? Their lamentation is now the only mark of their life. But it dies away, as corn vanishes from a field that is being mown, or as a dying fire is slowly extinguished! They do not die. They wish they were dead! (lxxviii. 40). |
