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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ۝٥
Sentence structure
فَ links the result and جَعَلَ is a perfect verb with attached object هُمْ. كَعَصْفٍۢ is a comparative prepositional phrase, and مَّأْكُولٍۭ is a genitive passive-participle adjective of عَصْفٍۢ.

Ayah summary
Allah reduced them to scattered, eaten straw.

فَجَعَلَهُمْ — so He made them
Grammar: فَ links the result; جَعَلَ is a third-person masculine-singular perfect whose subject is the hidden pronoun «هُوَ», and attached هُمْ is its first object.

كَعَصْفٍۢ — like eaten straw
Grammar: Comparative preposition كَ governs عَصْفٍۢ; the phrase is linked to the omitted second object of جَعَلَ.

مَّأْكُولٍۭ — eaten
Grammar: An indefinite masculine genitive Form I passive participle adjective of عَصْفٍۢ.

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Surah Al-Fil · Ayah 5

Surah Al-Fil — Part 1

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ۝٥
Sentence structure
فَ links the result and جَعَلَ is a perfect verb with attached object هُمْ. كَعَصْفٍۢ is a comparative prepositional phrase, and مَّأْكُولٍۭ is a genitive passive-participle adjective of عَصْفٍۢ.

Ayah summary
Allah reduced them to scattered, eaten straw.

فَجَعَلَهُمْ — so He made them
Grammar: فَ links the result; جَعَلَ is a third-person masculine-singular perfect whose subject is the hidden pronoun «هُوَ», and attached هُمْ is its first object.

كَعَصْفٍۢ — like eaten straw
Grammar: Comparative preposition كَ governs عَصْفٍۢ; the phrase is linked to the omitted second object of جَعَلَ.

مَّأْكُولٍۭ — eaten
Grammar: An indefinite masculine genitive Form I passive participle adjective of عَصْفٍۢ.