Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the first verse of chapter 68 (sūrat l-qalam). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (68) sūrat l-qalam (The Pen)

Sahih International: Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

Pickthall: Nun. By the pen and that which they write (therewith),

Yusuf Ali: Nun. By the Pen and the (Record) which (men) write,-

Shakir: Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,

Muhammad Sarwar: Nun. By the pen and by what you write,

Mohsin Khan: Nun. [These letters (Nun, etc.) are one of the miracles of the Quran, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]. By the pen and what the (angels) write (in the Records of men).

Arberry: Nun. By the Pen, and what they inscribe,

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See Also

• Verse (68:1) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (68:1)