Surah Qamar Ayat 20 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 20
Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
which tore people away and hurled them as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.
Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.
Plucking up mankind as if they were the stumps of uprooted palm-trees.
it swept people away like uprooted palm trunks.
جو لوگوں کو اٹھا اٹھا کر دے پٹختی تھی، گویا کہ وه جڑ سے کٹے ہوئے کھجور کے تنے ہیں
Quran 54 Verse 20 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Qamar ayat 20, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(54:20) which tore people away and hurled them as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
There is no commentary by Abul Maududi available for this verse.
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Qamar verse 20 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qamar ayat 18 which provides the complete commentary from verse 18 through 22.
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