Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fifth verse of chapter 55 (sūrat l-raḥmān). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (55) sūrat l-raḥmān (The Most Gracious)

Sahih International: The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation,

Pickthall: The sun and the moon are made punctual.

Yusuf Ali: The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed;

Shakir: The sun and the moon follow a reckoning.

Muhammad Sarwar: The sun and moon rotate in a predestined orbit.

Mohsin Khan: The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.).

Arberry: The sun and the moon to a reckoning,

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See Also

• Verse (55:5) Morphology - description of each Arabic word