Quran 69 : 7

Which He imposed upon them (for) seven nights and eight days (in) succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were trunks (of) date-palms hollow.
سَخَّرَهَا
Sakhkharahā
عَلَيْهِمْ
ʿAlayhim
سَبْعَ
Sabʿa
لَيَالٍ
Layālin
وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ
Wathamaāniyaha
أَيَّامٍ
Aayyāmin
حُسُومًا
Ḥusūmana
فَتَرَى
Fatarā
ٱلْقَوْمَ
Alqawma
فِيهَا
Fīhā
صَرْعَىٰ
Ṣarʿaāā
كَأَنَّهُمْ
Kaannahum
أَعْجَازُ
Aaʿjāzu
نَخْلٍ
Nakhlin
خَاوِيَةٍ
Khāwiyahin

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, in succession. You could see the people destroyed in it, as if they are decayed palm trunks

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down

Wahiduddin Khan

which God let loose against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you could have seen its people lying prostrate as though they were the hollow trunks of palm-trees which had fallen down

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees

The Wise Quran

Which He imposed on them for seven nights and eight days consecutively. And you might see the people therein prostrate as though they were palm stumps thrown down,

The Study Quran

He imposed it upon them for seven nights and eight days consecutively, so that thou might see the people felled as if they were hollowed palm trunks

Talal Itani (2012)

He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, in succession. You could see the people tossed around, as though they were stumps of hollow palm-trees

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

He imposed it upon them for seven nights and eight consecutive days. You see the people in it fallen, as if they were hollow palm trunks.

T.B.Irving

He loosed it on them for seven grueling nights and eight days. You would see folk collapsing in it as if they were hollow palm trunks.

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Which (wind) He (Allah) made it rage against them for seven nights and eight days continuously so that you could see all the people lying on their faces in its (path), as if they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down

Sher Ali

Which God caused to blow against them for seven nights and eight days continuously, so that thou mightest have seen the people therein lying prostrate, as though they were trunks of palm trees fallen down

Shakir

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms

Shabbir Ahmed

Which He made it rage upon them for seven long nights and eight long days. Such that you could imagine those people as uprooted hollow palm-trunks. (54:20)

Samy Mahdy

He subserviated it upon them for seven nights and eight days, decisiveness. So, you see the kinfolk thrown down, as though they were stumps of hollow palm-trees.

Safi Kaskas

which He unleashed against them for seven nights and eight days, nonstop. You could have seen its people lying dead as if they were hollow palm tree trunks.

Rashad Khalifa

He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, violently. You could see the people tossed around like decayed palm trunks.

N J Dawood 2014

which He let loose on them for seven nights and eight successive days: you might have seen the people lying dead as though they had been hollow trunks of palm-trees

Mustaqim

He directed it against them for seven nights and eight days consecutively, then you saw the people thrown to the ground as if they were stumps of cut down palm trees.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

which Allah unleashed on them non-stop for seven nights and eight days, so that you would have seen its people lying dead like trunks of uprooted palm trees.

Musharraf Hussain

which He forced against them for seven nights and eight days in succession. So you would have seen the people therein dead, lying prostrate as if they were like the hollow trunks of palm trees.

MunirMezyed2023

Which Allâh unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days continuously. Thus, you could see the people lying lifeless as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms!

Munir Mezyed

Which Allâh unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days continuously. Thus, you could see the people lying dead as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms!,

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

that He imposed on them for seven nights and eight consecutive days; so you could see them thrown on the ground, as if they were trunks of hollow palm-trees

Muhammad Sarwar

which continued to strike them for seven and eight days so that eventually you could see the people lying dead like the hollow trunks of uprooted palm-trees

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

He subjected it against them seven nights and eight days in gruesome succession, so that you might have seen the people laid overthrown in it as if they were the hollow stumps of devastated palm- trees

Muhammad Asad

which He willed against them for seven nights and eight days without cease, so that in the end thou couldst see those people laid low [in death], as though they were so many [uprooted] trunks of hollow palm trees

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

He manipulated/subjugated it on them seven nights and eight days ominously/severing goodness (uprooting), so you see the nation in it lying flat/mad, as if they are palm tree's fallen/destroyed ends

Mohammad Shafi

HE let it [storm] loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession. You would have seen the people there then lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of palm trees

Mir Aneesuddin

which He imposed on them for seven nights and eight days continuously, so that you could see people lying therein, overthrown as if they were the hollow trunks of date palms.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days continuously, so that thou mightest have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were trunks of hollow palm-trees

Maududi

which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees

Linda "iLham" Barto

He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days continuously. People could be seen fallen. They were like hollow, palm logs.

John Medows Rodwell

It did the bidding of God against them seven nights and eight days together, during which thou mightest have seen the people laid low, as though they had been the trunks of hollow palms

Irving/Hegab

He loosed it on them for seven grueling nights and eight days. You would see folk collapsing in it as if they were hollow palm trunks.

Hilali - Khan

Which Allah imposed on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that you could see men lying overthrown (destroyed), as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

that He subjected upon them for seven nights and eight days consecutively and you might have seen them struck down as if they were the stumps of palm trees that had fallen down

Hamid S. Aziz

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms

George Sale

which God caused to assail them for seven nights and eight days successively: Thou mightest have seen people, during the same, lying prostrate, as though they had been the roots of hollow palm-trees

Fode Drame

He made it reign over them for seven nights and eight days of continuous succession. You see the people therein fell down as though they are trunks of hollow date-trees.

Faridul Haque

He forced it upon them with strength, consecutively for seven nights and eight days - so you would see those people overthrown in it, like trunks of date palms fallen down

Edward Henry Palmer

which He subjected against them for seven nights and eight days consecutively

Dr. Munir Munshey

For seven hideous days and eight gruesome nights, He let the winds ravage them. (Had you been there), you could see their bodies tossed about (and strewn around), as if they were the hollowed out trunks of the date trees

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Allah made that (gale) seize them for consecutive seven nights and eight days. So, you could see them lying dead (during that time as if) they were hollow roots of the uprooted palm trees

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

It compelled against them for seven uninterrupted nights and eight days so wilt thou see the folk in it laid prostrate as if they had been uprooted fallen down date palm trees?

Dr. Kamal Omar

(Allah) imposed it on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you see the (whole) nation therein lifeless as if they are (hollow) trunks of date-palm — those which fall down (themselves)

Corpus.Quran

Which He imposed upon them (for) seven nights and eight days (in) succession so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were trunks (of) date-palms hollow

Bilal Muhammad 2018

He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession. So that you could see the people lying prostrate in its path, as if they had been roots of hollow palm trees tumbled down

Bijan Moeinian

… Those who were refusing to bow down at their Lord were prostrating by the force of the wind which threw them down as if they were the trunks of hollow palm trees

Bakhtiari Nejad

which He subjected them to seven nights and eight days of it consecutively, then you would have seen people fallen down in there as if they were trunks of hollow (and dried up) date palms.

Arthur John Arberry

violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees

Amatul Rahman Omar

Which He let loose on them for seven nights and eight days, with no break, so that (if you had been there) you would have seen the people lying therein sprawled (looking) as though they were hollow trunks of palm-trees fallen down

Ali Ünal

Which God made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, so that you could have seen people lying overthrown in it, as though they were hollow trunks of palm-trees

Ali Quli Qara'i

which He disposed against them for seven grueling nights and eight days, so that you could have seen the people lying about therein prostrate as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees

Aisha Bewley

Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms.

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Which He subjected them forcefully for seven nights and eight days consecutively, then see those people in it lying down, as though they were trunks of palm-trees lying down.

Ahmed Hulusi

He subjected them (to that hurricane) for seven nights and eight days! You will see them fallen therein like hollow trunks of palm trees!

Ahmed Ali

Which He sent to assail them for seven nights and eight days running. You should have seen the people prostrate like the decayed trunks of date-palm trees

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

To which He subjected them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that thou mightest have seen men during it lying prostrate, as though they were stumps of palms ruined

Abdul Hye

which Allah imposed on them for 7 nights and 8 days in succession, so that you could see the people lying overthrown (destroyed) in it as if they were hollow trunks of date-palms!

Abdel Haleem

that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks