Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 41st 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 already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

Pickthall: Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.

Yusuf Ali: Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.

Shakir: And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.

Muhammad Sarwar: They mocked the Messengers who were sent before you; thus, the torment which they had ridiculed encompassed them all.

Mohsin Khan: Indeed (many) Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad SAW), but the scoffers were surrounded by that, whereat they used to mock.

Arberry: Messengers indeed were mocked at before thee, but those that scoffed at them were encompassed by that they mocked at.

Verse 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46

See Also

• Verse (21:41) Morphology - description of each Arabic word