Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 58th 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: And when you call to prayer, they take it in ridicule and amusement. That is because they are a people who do not use reason.

Pickthall: And when ye call to prayer they take it for a jest and sport. That is because they are a folk who understand not.

Yusuf Ali: When ye proclaim your call to prayer they take it (but) as mockery and sport; that is because they are a people without understanding.

Shakir: And when you call to prayer they make it a mockery and a joke; this is because they are a people who do not understand.

Muhammad Sarwar: Because they are devoid of understanding, they ridicule your call for prayers saying that it is a useless act.

Mohsin Khan: And when you proclaim the call for As-Salat [call for the prayer (Adhan)], they take it (but) as a mockery and fun; that is because they are a people who understand not.

Arberry: and when you call to prayer, take it in mockery and as a sport; that is because they are a people who have no understanding.

Verse 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63

See Also

• Verse (5:58) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (5:58)