| إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَكَانُوا كَهَشِيمِ الْمُحْتَظِرِ |
| Asad | : | Behold, We let loose upon them one single blast [of Our punishment],18 and they became like the dried-up, crumbling twigs of a sheepfold. |
| Malik | : | We let loose on them one mighty blast and they became like the trampled twigs used by a fence builder. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | Indeed, We sent against them ˹only˺ one ˹mighty˺ blast, leaving them like the twigs of fence-builders. |
| Pickthall | : | Lo! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle fold. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle. 5151 5152 |
| Transliteration | : | Inna arsalna AAalayhim sayhatan wahidatan fakanoo kahasheemi almuhtathiri |
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See n. 1047 to vii. 78, and Cf. the same phrase "single Blast" used for the signal for the Resurrection in xxxvi. 53. In the case of the Thamud, the destruction seems to have been by a severe earthquake accompanied with a terrible rumbling noise. |
