Qur'an 69:7 Al-Haqqah
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍۢ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۢ
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.
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What it says
The wind is given a term: seven nights and eight days running, husuman, one after another with nothing between. Then the scene left behind, bodies laid out where they had been standing, compared to the stumps of palms. A'jaz are the lower ends of trunks, so what is left is not a tree but the base of one, and khawiyah says it is empty inside.
Word by word
سَخَّرَهَا sakhkharahā He loosed it · عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim on them · سَبْعَ sabʿa seven · لَيَالٍ layālin nights · وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ wa-thamāniyata and eight · أَيَّامٍ ayyāmin days · حُسُومًا ḥusūman without a break · فَتَرَى fa-tarā so you see · ٱلْقَوْمَ al-qawma the people · فِيهَا fīhā in it · صَرْعَىٰ ṣarʿā struck down · كَأَنَّهُمْ ka'annahum as though they · أَعْجَازُ aʿjāzu the stumps · نَخْلٍ nakhlin of palm trees · خَاوِيَةٍ khāwiyah hollowed out
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