Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 21st verse of chapter 5 (sūrat l-māidah). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (5) sūrat l-māidah (The Table spread with Food)

Sahih International: O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah's cause] and [thus] become losers."

Pickthall: O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for you. Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers:

Yusuf Ali: "O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin."

Shakir: O my people! enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers.

Muhammad Sarwar: Enter the sacred promised land which God has designated for you. Do not return to disbelief lest you become lost".

Mohsin Khan: "O my people! Enter the holy land (Palestine) which Allah has assigned to you, and turn not back (in flight) for then you will be returned as losers."

Arberry: O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you, and turn not back in your traces, to turn about losers.'

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See Also

• Verse (5:21) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (5:21)