Al-Qamar Verse 31

Indeed, We sent against them ˹only˺ one ˹mighty˺ blast, leaving them like the twigs of fence-builders.

We sent against them a single blast, leaving them like trampled hedge-building twigs.

We loosed against them one Cry, and they were as the wattles of a pen-builder.

We released a single mighty blast against them and they ended up like a fencemaker’s dry sticks.

Verily We We sent upon them one shout, and they became as the stubble of a fold-builder.

For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.

Behold, We sent a single Blast against them, and they became like the trampled twigs of a sheep pen-builder.

We sent a single blast against them, and they were reduced to husks of a decayed fence.

Indeed We sent upon them a single Scream – thereupon they became like the barrier builder’s residual dry trampled hay.

We sent against them a single Cry, and they became like the dry sticks of a corral builder.

We sent upon them a single Blast, and they became like dried chippings of shrubs used as cattle-fodder.

And We let loose a single and sudden blast against them and they became crushed like dry twigs whittled down by an enclosure-maker.

We (E) sent on them one loud strong cry/torture raid, so they were as the dried and broken plants .

Indeed We sent upon them a single Scream – thereupon they became like the barrier builder’s residual dry trampled hay.

Surely We sent upon them a single Shout (or Blast), so they became like the dry stubble which the maker of an enclosure collects.

Verily, We sent against them a single Saihah (torment - awful cry, etc.), and they became like the dry stubble of a fold-builder.

And inform them that the water is shared between them; every share of the water shall be attended.

Surely We sent upon them a single cry, so they were like the dry fragments of trees which the maker of an enclosure collects.

Lo! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle-fold.

We sent upon them a single blast of sound and they were left like hay to be used by the cattle.

Then We sent against them one Shout and they became like the trampled twigs of the (sheep) penbuilder.

Verily, We sent against them a single Sayhah, and they became like straw Al-Muhtazir.

Then We sent a single blast against them and they became like dry stubble which has been trampled upon.

We sent against them a single Scream, and they became like crushed hay.

Indeed We unleashed upon them a single Cry, and they became like the chaff of a corral builder (al- muhtazir is one who makes a pen from dried tree-branches and thorns for his sheep, to protect them from wolves and beasts of prey; the fallen parts which they tread are called hashm).

Verily, We sent against them a single Sayhah, and they became like straw Al-Muhtazir.

They all perished and none of them remained. They were no more, they died out, just as plants and grass dry and die out.

As-Suddi said that they became like the dry grass in the desert when it becomes burned and the wind scatters it all about.

Ibn Zayd said,

"The Arabs used to erect fences (Hizar, from which the word, Al-Muhtazir, is derived) made of dried bushes, around their camels and cattle, so Allah said,
كَهَشِيمِ الْمُحْتَظِرِ
(like straw Al-Muhtazir.)

وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ