Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out 79:46

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Arabic English Morphology
As though they Prep
يَوْمَ yawma
(the) Day Noun
they see it V
لَمْ lam
not Prep
they had remained V
إِلَّا illā
except Prep
عَشِيَّةً ʿashiyyatan
an evening Noun
or Prep
ضُحَىٰهَا ḍuḥāhā
a morning thereof Noun

On the Day they see it, it will seem they lingered [in this life] an evening [at most,] or its morning

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا

Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha