Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twentieth verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees)

Sahih International: And those they invoke other than Allah create nothing, and they [themselves] are created.

Pickthall: Those unto whom they cry beside Allah created naught, but are themselves created.

Yusuf Ali: Those whom they invoke besides Allah create nothing and are themselves created.

Shakir: And those whom they call on besides Allah have not created anything while they are themselves created;

Muhammad Sarwar: Whatever (idols) they worship besides God can create nothing for they are themselves created.

Mohsin Khan: Those whom they (Al-Mushrikun) invoke besides Allah have not created anything, but are themselves created.

Arberry: And those they call upon, apart from God, created nothing, and themselves are created,

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See Also

• Verse (16:20) Morphology - description of each Arabic word