Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran

Roman Translition of the Arabic Source
Transliteration		TanziAAu alnnasa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAirin	⇨

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad	it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted:	⇨
M. M. Pickthall	Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.	⇨
Shakir	Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.	⇨
Yusuf Ali	Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).	⇨
[Al-Muntakhab]	Setting people flying and springing upon the ground with violence, plucking towns out and leaving nothing standing as if they were palm- trees torn up by the roots.	⇨
[Progressive Muslims]	It uprooted the people as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.	⇨
Abdel Haleem	it swept people away like uprooted palm trunks.	⇨
Abdul Majid Daryabadi	Carrying men away as though they were trunks of palm-trees uprooted.	⇨
Ahmed Ali	It removes/pulls the people as if they are extracted/dead palm trees' ends.	⇨
Aisha Bewley	It plucked up men like uprooted stumps.	⇨
Ali Ünal	Tearing people away as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Ali Quli Qara'i	knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.	⇨
Amatul Rahman Omar	It (- the howling wind) tore the people away as though they were the hollowed stumps of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Hamid S. Aziz	Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees uprooted.	⇨
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali	Plucking up mankind as if they were the stumps of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Muhammad Sarwar	which hurled people around like uprooted trunks of palm-trees.	⇨
Muhammad Taqi Usmani	plucking people away, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Shabbir Ahmed	Tossing people around like empty, uprooted palm-trunks.	⇨
Syed Vickar Ahamed	Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).	⇨
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)	Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.	⇨
Farook Malik	it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted: [As mentioned in 69:6-8, this wind - obviously an exceptionally violent sandstorm - raged without break for seven nights and eight days. For particulars of the tribe of Ad, see second half of note on 7:65.]	⇨

Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
Bijan Moeinian	The storm was tossing people around as though they were decayed palm tree trunks.	⇨
Faridul Haque	Smashing down men as if they were uprooted trunks of date palms.	⇨
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah	and snatched people up as though they were stumps of uprooted palmtrees.	⇨
Maulana Muhammad Ali	How terrible was then My chastisement and My warning!	⇨
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira	Which snatched away men as though they were palm trees pulled out by the roots.	⇨
Sher Ali	Tearing people away as though they were the hollow trunks of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Yusuf Ali (org.)	Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).	⇨
Rashad Khalifa	It tossed the people around as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.	⇨

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry	plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees.	⇨
Edward Henry Palmer	It reft men away as though they had been palm stumps torn up!	⇨
George Sale	It carried men away, as though they had been roots of palm-trees forcibly torn up.	⇨
John Medows Rodwell	It tore men away as though they were uprooted palm stumps.	⇨

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