Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twelfth verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets)

Sahih International: And when its inhabitants perceived Our punishment, at once they fled from it.

Pickthall: And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!

Yusuf Ali: Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.

Shakir: So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly

Muhammad Sarwar: When they found Our torment approaching them they started to run away from the town.

Mohsin Khan: Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.

Arberry: Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it.

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See Also

• Verse (21:12) Morphology - description of each Arabic word