وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَاظًۭا وَهُمْ رُقُودٌۭ ۚ وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ ۖ وَكَلْبُهُم بَٰسِطٌۭ ذِرَاعَيْهِ بِٱلْوَصِيدِ ۚ لَوِ ٱطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًۭا وَلَمُلِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ رُعْبًۭا
How to read it
Wa taḥ'sabuhum' 'ay'qāẓan wahum' ruqūdun . wanuqallibuhum' dhāta l-yamīni wadhāta shshimāli . wakal'buhum bāssiṭun dhirāʻay'hi bil-waṣīdi . lawi (i)ṭṭalaʻ'ta ʻalay'him' lawallay'ta min'hum' firāran walamuli''ta min'hum' ruʻ'ban
Thou wouldst have deemed them awake, whilst they were asleep, and We turned them on their right and on their left sides: their dog stretching forth his two fore-legs on the threshold: if thou hadst come up on to them, thou wouldst have certainly turned back from them in flight, and wouldst certainly have been filled with terror of them.
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
