Fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey.
18 Maulana Mohammad Ali
Fleeing from a lion?
19 Mohammad Habib Shakir
That had fled from a lion?
20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
Fleeing from a lion?
21 Muhammad Sarwar
running away from a lion?
22 Qaribullah & Darwish
fleeing before a lion?
23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Fleeing from a Qaswarah.
24 Wahiduddin Khan
fleeing from a lion?
25 Talal Itani
Fleeing from a lion?
26 Tafsir jalalayn
fleeing from a lion?, that is to say, fleeing from it with absolute fright.
27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir
As if they were wild donkeys. Fleeing from a Qaswarah.
meaning, as if they were fleeing from the truth and turning away from it, like a wild donkey when it flees from something that is trying to catch it, like a lion.
This was said by Abu Hurayrah.
Hammad bin Salamah reported from `Ali bin Zayd who reported from Yusuf bin Mihran who narrated that Ibn `Abbas said,
"It (Qaswarah) is the lion in the Arabic language. It is called Qaswarah in the Abyssinian language, Sher in the Persian language and Awba in the Nabtiyyah (Nabatean) language."