Al-Qamar 54:31
The Moon · ayah 31 of 55
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ
Inna arsalna AAalayhim sayhatanwahidatan fakanoo kahasheemi almuhtathir
"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."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"We released a single mighty blast against them and they ended up like a fencemaker’s dry sticks."
Pickthall (classic)+
"Lo! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle-fold."
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle."