Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 47th verse of chapter 23 (sūrat l-mu'minūn). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (23) sūrat l-mu'minūn (The Believers)

Sahih International: They said, "Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?"

Pickthall: And they said: Shall we put faith in two mortals like ourselves, and whose folk are servile unto us?

Yusuf Ali: They said: "Shall we believe in two men like ourselves? And their people are subject to us!"

Shakir: And they said: What! shall we believe in two mortals like ourselves while their people serve us?

Muhammad Sarwar: They said, "Should we believe in two mere mortals who are like ourselves and whose people are our slaves?"

Mohsin Khan: They said: "Shall we believe in two men like ourselves, and their people are obedient to us with humility (and we use them to serve us as we like)."

Arberry: and they said, 'What, shall we believe two mortals like ourselves, whose people are our servants?'

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See Also

• Verse (23:47) Morphology - description of each Arabic word