with their downcast khāshi‘an a variant reading has khushsha‘an humiliated looks absāruhum is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of the verb yakhrujūna ‘they will emerge’ they that is mankind will emerge from the graves as though they were scattered locusts not knowing where to go out of fear and perplexity this sentence ka’annahum jarādun muntashirun is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of the verb yakhrujūna ‘they will emerge’ and so is His saying muhti‘īna