Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 156th verse of chapter 6 (sūrat l-anʿām). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (6) sūrat l-anʿām (The Cattle)

Sahih International: [We revealed it] lest you say, "The Scripture was only sent down to two groups before us, but we were of their study unaware,"

Pickthall: Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read;

Yusuf Ali: Lest ye should say: "The Book was sent down to two Peoples before us, and for our part, we remained unacquainted with all that they learned by assiduous study:"

Shakir: Lest you say that the Book was only revealed to two parties before us and We were truly unaware of what they read.

Muhammad Sarwar: and will not say that the Book was revealed only to two groups of people before you, or that you were ignorant of its knowledge,

Mohsin Khan: Lest you (pagan Arabs) should say: "The Book was only sent down to two sects before us (the Jews and the Christians), and for our part, we were in fact unaware of what they studied."

Arberry: lest you should say, 'The Book was sent down only upon two parties before us, and we have indeed been heedless of their study';

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See Also

• Verse (6:156) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (6:156)