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Surah 21. Al-Anbiya, Ayah 15

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فَمَا زَالَت تِّلْكَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَـٰهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَـٰمِدِينَ

Fam a z a lat tilka daAAw a hum h att a jaAAaln a hum h a s eedan kh a mideen a

And that cry of theirs did not cease until We caused them to become [like] a field mown down, still and silent as ashes.

- Mohammad Asad

They kept on repeating that statement till We mowed them down, leaving no spark of life in them.

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

They kept repeating their cry until We mowed them down, 'leaving them' lifeless.¹

- Mustafa Khattab

And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct.

- Marmaduke Pickthall

And that cry of theirs ceased not till We made them as a field that is mown as ashes silent and quenched. ²⁶⁷⁵

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali