Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the second verse of chapter 54 (sūrat l-qamar). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (54) sūrat l-qamar (The Moon)

Sahih International: And if they see a miracle, they turn away and say, "Passing magic."

Pickthall: And if they behold a portent they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion.

Yusuf Ali: But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic."

Shakir: And if they see a miracle they turn aside and say: Transient magic.

Muhammad Sarwar: Whenever they see a miracle, they turn away from it and say, "This is just a powerful magic".

Mohsin Khan: And if they see a sign, they turn away, and say: "This is continuous magic."

Arberry: Yet if they see a sign they turn away, and they say 'A continuous sorcery!'

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See Also

• Verse (54:2) Morphology - description of each Arabic word