Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the ninth 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: They [think to] deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive not except themselves and perceive [it] not.

Pickthall: They think to beguile Allah and those who believe, and they beguile none save themselves; but they perceive not.

Yusuf Ali: Fain would they deceive Allah and those who believe, but they only deceive themselves, and realise (it) not!

Shakir: They desire to deceive Allah and those who believe, and they deceive only themselves and they do not perceive.

Muhammad Sarwar: They deceive God and the believers. However, they have deceived no one but themselves, a fact of which they are not aware.

Mohsin Khan: They (think to) deceive Allah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and perceive (it) not!

Arberry: They would trick God and the believers, and only themselves they deceive, and they are not aware.

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See Also

• Verse (2:9) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (2:9)