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Verse (51:17) - English Translation

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Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the seventeenth verse of chapter 51 (sūrat l-dhāriyāt). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (51) sūrat l-dhāriyāt (The Wind that Scatter)

Sahih International: They used to sleep but little of the night,

Pickthall: They used to sleep but little of the night,

Yusuf Ali: They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night,

Shakir: They used to sleep but little in the night.

Muhammad Sarwar: They slept very little during the night

Mohsin Khan: They used to sleep but little by night [invoking their Lord (Allah) and praying, with fear and hope].

Arberry: Little of the night would they slumber,

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