Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fifth verse of chapter 25 (sūrat l-fur'qān). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion)

Sahih International: And they say, "Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."

Pickthall: And they say: Fables of the men of old which he hath had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening.

Yusuf Ali: And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening."

Shakir: And they say: The stories of the ancients-- he has got them written-- so these are read out to him morning and evening.

Muhammad Sarwar: They have also said, "It ,(the Quran), is only ancient legends, which were written down while they were dictated to him in the mornings and the evenings".

Mohsin Khan: And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."

Arberry: They say, 'Fairy-tales of the ancients that he has had written down, so that they are recited to him at the dawn and in the evening.'

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See Also

• Verse (25:5) Morphology - description of each Arabic word