Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 39th 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: If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...

Pickthall: If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!

Yusuf Ali: If only the Unbelievers knew (the time) when they will not be able to ward off the fire from their faces, nor yet from their backs, and (when) no help can reach them!

Shakir: Had those who disbelieve but known (of the time) when they shall not be able to ward off the fire from their faces nor from their backs, nor shall they be helped.

Muhammad Sarwar: Would that the unbelievers knew that no one would protect their faces and backs against the fire, nor they would be helped.

Mohsin Khan: If only those who disbelieved knew (the time) when they will not be able to ward off the Fire from their faces, nor from their backs; and they will not be helped.

Arberry: If the unbelievers but knew when that they shall not ward off the Fire from their faces nor from their backs, neither shall they be helped!

Verse 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44

See Also

• Verse (21:39) Morphology - description of each Arabic word