Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the sixteenth verse of chapter 7 (sūrat l-aʿrāf). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights)

Sahih International: [Satan] said, "Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path.

Pickthall: He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path.

Yusuf Ali: He said: "Because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! I will lie in wait for them on thy straight way:

Shakir: He said: As Thou hast caused me to remain disappointed I will certainly lie in wait for them in Thy straight path.

Muhammad Sarwar: Then Satan said, "Because you have made me go astray, I shall certainly try to seduce people into straying from the right path.

Mohsin Khan: (Iblis) said: "Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path.

Arberry: Said he, 'Now, for Thy perverting me, I shall surely sit in ambush for them on Thy straight path;

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See Also

• Verse (7:16) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (7:16)