The Reality, The Inevitable 69:7

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Arabic English Morphology
Which He imposed V
upon them Prep
سَبْعَ sabʿa
(for) seven Noun
لَيَالٍ layālin
nights Noun
and eight Noun
أَيَّامٍ ayyāmin
days Noun
حُسُومًا ḥusūman
(in) succession Noun
فَتَرَى fatarā
so you would see V
the people Noun
فِيهَا fīhā
therein Prep
صَرْعَىٰ ṣarʿā
fallen Noun
as if they were Prep
trunks Noun
نَخْلٍ nakhlin
(of) date-palms Noun
خَاوِيَةٍ khāwiyatin
hollow Noun

that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَیۡهِمۡ سَبۡعَ لَیَالࣲ وَثَمَـٰنِیَةَ أَیَّامٍ حُسُومࣰاۖ فَتَرَى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ فِیهَا صَرۡعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٍ خَاوِیَةࣲ ۝٧

sakharahā ʿalayhim sabʿa layālin wathamāniyata ayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʿā ka-annahum aʿjāzu nakhlin khāwiyati