Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the sixteenth verse of chapter 50 (sūrat qāf). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (50) sūrat qāf

Sahih International: And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein

Pickthall: We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

Yusuf Ali: It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.

Shakir: And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.

Muhammad Sarwar: We swear that We have created the human being and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are closer to him than even his jugular vein.

Mohsin Khan: And indeed We have created man, and We know what his ownself whispers to him. And We are nearer to him than his jugular vein (by Our Knowledge).

Arberry: We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein.

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See Also

• Verse (50:16) Morphology - description of each Arabic word