Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fourth verse of chapter 15 (sūrat l-ḥij'r). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract)

Sahih International: And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

Pickthall: And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.

Yusuf Ali: Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.

Shakir: And never did We destroy a town but it had a term made known.

Muhammad Sarwar: We never destroyed any town without pre-ordaining the fate of its people.

Mohsin Khan: And never did We destroy a township but there was a known decree for it.

Arberry: Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree,

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See Also

• Verse (15:4) Morphology - description of each Arabic word