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Explanatory Note
This verse gives the exact duration of this hurricane that hit for so long so as to draw an image of the scene after it was all over. The image is detailed, pressed on our minds so that we can see its every detail. The people of the 'Ad are ‘lying dead’ everywhere, and they look like ‘uprooted tree trunks', but these trunks are ‘hollow' , eaten from inside and no longer able to stand upright. They are thrown on the ground, lifeless. The sad silence of death now reigns after the furiously howling hurricane. So, what is left of them?