Qur'an 105:5 Al-Fil
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And He made them like eaten straw.
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What it says
Asf is the husk and leaf left on a grain stalk after the grain has gone, and makul says it has been eaten. The army ends as what is left on a stable floor once the animals have finished, which is not a body and not a ruin but a residue.
Word by word
فَجَعَلَهُمْ fa-jaʿalahum so He made them · كَعَصْفٍ ka-ʿaṣfin like stripped stalks · مَّأْكُولٍ maʾkūl eaten through
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