Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 86th verse of chapter 4 (sūrat l-nisāa). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)

Sahih International: And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet [in return] with one better than it or [at least] return it [in a like manner]. Indeed, Allah is ever, over all things, an Accountant.

Pickthall: When ye are greeted with a greeting, greet ye with a better than it or return it. Lo! Allah taketh count of all things.

Yusuf Ali: When a (courteous) greeting is offered you, meet it with a greeting still more courteous, or (at least) of equal courtesy. Allah takes careful account of all things.

Shakir: And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet with a better (greeting) than it or return it; surely Allah takes account of all things.

Muhammad Sarwar: Answer a greeting in kinder words than those said to you in the greeting or at least as kind. God keeps account of all things.

Mohsin Khan: When you are greeted with a greeting, greet in return with what is better than it, or (at least) return it equally. Certainly, Allah is Ever a Careful Account Taker of all things.

Arberry: And when you are greeted with a greeting greet with a fairer than it, or return it; surely God keeps a watchful count over everything.

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See Also

• Verse (4:86) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (4:86)