سُوْرَةُ الْقَمَرِ

Surah Al-Qamar (54) — Ayah 20

The Moon · Meccan · Juz 27 · Page 529

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ ﴿20﴾
Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.
تَنزِعُ tanziʿu Plucking out
ٱلنَّاسَ l-nāsa men
كَأَنَّهُمْ ka-annahum as if they (were)
أَعْجَازُ aʿjāzu trunks
نَخْلٍۢ nakhlin (of) date-palms
مُّنقَعِرٍۢ munqaʿirin uprooted

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(Ayah 20) {تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنْقَعِرٍ: ’’نَزِعَ يَنْزَعُ نَزْعًا‘‘} (a) {’’اَلشَّيْءَ مِنْ مَّكَانِهٖ‘‘} To uproot something from its place. {’’ مُنْقَعِرٍ ‘‘ ’’ قَعْرٌ ‘‘} (depth) is from it, meaning 'uprooted'.. See also the exegesis of Surah Al-Haqqah (7).

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The explanation of this verse has been given along with the previous verse.

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20. It was tearing people away and hurling them as if they were roots of uprooted palm trees [19].

[19]
The People of 'Ad and Their Fate:

This punishment came in the form of an extremely fast-moving wind, and this wind was intensely cold, which would enter their homes. It would also uproot trees and throw them away, and it would even uproot the people of the nation, who were tall, well-built, strong, and powerful, from their feet and hurl them to the ground. This would break their necks, and it seemed as if they too were palm trees uprooted from their roots.