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Muhammad Asad   
and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool...
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
and the mountains will be like carded wool.
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and the mountains will be like fluffed up wool

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Arabic   
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوش
Transliteration (2021)   
watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni l-manfūsh
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
  
And will be the mountains like wool, fluffed up.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool...
M. M. Pickthall   
And the mountains will become as carded wool
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
And the mountains will be like carded wool
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
and the mountains will be like carded wool.
Safi Kaskas   
and the mountains will be like fluffed up wool
Wahiduddin Khan   
and the mountains like tufts of carded wool
Shakir   
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
and the mountains will be like plucked wool clusters.
T.B.Irving   
and the mountains seem like tufts of yarn!
Abdul Hye   
and the mountains will be like carded wool.
The Study Quran   
and the mountains shall be like carded wool
Dr. Kamal Omar   
And the mountains become like wool, fully carded
Farook Malik   
and the mountains like colorful carded wool
Talal A. Itani (new translation)   
And the mountains will be like tufted wool
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And the mountains will be like carded wool tufts
Muhammad Sarwar   
and mountains will be like carded wool
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
and the mountains will be like carded wool
Shabbir Ahmed   
And the mountains will be like flakes of wool
Dr. Munir Munshey   
And the mountains like the fluffy tufts of colored wool
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
And the mountains will be like torn wool
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
And the mountains will be like fluffed up wool
Abdel Haleem   
and the mountains like tufts of wool
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
And the mountains shall become as wool carded
Ahmed Ali   
The mountains like the tufts of carded wool
Aisha Bewley   
and the mountains like tufts of coloured wool.
Ali Ünal   
And the mountains will be like carded wool
Ali Quli Qara'i   
and the mountains will be like carded wool
Hamid S. Aziz   
And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
and the mountains become like fluffed up colored wool
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
And the mountains will be as wool
Musharraf Hussain   
and the mountains will sway like fluffy wool.
Maududi   
and the mountains shall be like fluffs of carded wool in varying colours
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
And the mountains will be like fluffed up wool.
Mohammad Shafi   
And the mountains like fluffed up wool

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
And the mountains shall be carded wool.
Rashad Khalifa   
The mountains will be like fluffy wool
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
and the mountains like tufts of carded wool
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
And the mountains will be as carded wool
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira   
And the mountains be/become like the wool/dyed wool, the carded (ruffled)
Bijan Moeinian   
In that day, the upright mountains will be reduced to soft tissues like loosened wool
Faridul Haque   
And mountains will be like flying wool
Sher Ali   
And the mountains will be like carded wool
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
And the mountains will be like multicoloured carded wool
Amatul Rahman Omar   
And the mountains shall look like carded wool
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
And the mountains will be like carded wool

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
and the mountains shall be like plucked wool-tufts
George Sale   
and the mountains shall become like carded wool of various colours driven by the wind
Edward Henry Palmer   
and the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool
John Medows Rodwell   
And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool
N J Dawood (2014)   
and the mountains like tufts of carded wool

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
The mountains will be like fluffs of wool.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
and the mountains seem like tufts of yarn!
Sayyid Qutb   
and the mountains like carded wool.
Ahmed Hulusi   
And the mountains (egos) like colorful soft wool (depleted and weak)!
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)   
and the mountains will be like loose bits of wool
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim   
And the mountains will be like flakes of wool carded out
Mir Aneesuddin   
and the mountains will be like loosened wool.

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
And the mountains will be like carded wool
OLD Literal Word for Word   
And will be the mountains like wool, fluffed up