Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 94th verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey)

Sahih International: And what prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them except that they said, "Has Allah sent a human messenger?"

Pickthall: And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger?

Yusuf Ali: What kept men back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said, "Has Allah sent a man (like us) to be (His) Messenger?"

Shakir: And nothing prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them except that they said: What! has Allah raised up a mortal to be a messenger?

Muhammad Sarwar: What keeps people from belief that guidance has come to them, but they question, "Why has God sent a mortal Messenger?"

Mohsin Khan: And nothing prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, except that they said: "Has Allah sent a man as (His) Messenger?"

Arberry: And naught prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, but that they said, 'Has God sent forth a mortal as Messenger?'

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See Also

• Verse (17:94) Morphology - description of each Arabic word