We sent a single blast against them, and they were reduced to husks of a decayed fence.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (lo! we sent upon them one shout) the shout of gabriel three days after the killing of the she-camel, (and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle fold) they became like the things in the cattle fold on which the cattle step.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : 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 hashīm).
