Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the sixteenth verse of chapter 2 (sūrat l-baqarah). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow)

Sahih International: Those are the ones who have purchased error [in exchange] for guidance, so their transaction has brought no profit, nor were they guided.

Pickthall: These are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, so their commerce doth not prosper, neither are they guided.

Yusuf Ali: These are they who have bartered Guidance for error: But their traffic is profitless, and they have lost true direction,

Shakir: These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction.

Muhammad Sarwar: They have traded guidance for error, but their bargain has had no profit and they have missed the true guidance.

Mohsin Khan: These are they who have purchased error for guidance, so their commerce was profitless. And they were not guided.

Arberry: Those are they that have bought error at the price of guidance, and their commerce has not profited them, and they are not right-guided.

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See Also

• Verse (2:16) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (2:16)