Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 68th verse of chapter 8 (sūrat l-anfāl). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (8) sūrat l-anfāl (The Spoils of War)

Sahih International: If not for a decree from Allah that preceded, you would have been touched for what you took by a great punishment.

Pickthall: Had it not been for an ordinance of Allah which had gone before, an awful doom had come upon you on account of what ye took.

Yusuf Ali: Had it not been for a previous ordainment from Allah, a severe penalty would have reached you for the (ransom) that ye took.

Shakir: Were it not for an ordinance from Allah that had already gone forth, surely there would have befallen you a great chastisement for what you had taken to.

Muhammad Sarwar: (Had you taken captives) before being allowed by God's revelations, a great torment would have struck you for what you had done.

Mohsin Khan: Were it not a previous ordainment from Allah, a severe torment would have touched you for what you took.

Arberry: Had it not been for a prior prescription from God, there had afflicted you, for what you took, a mighty chastisement.

Verse 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73

See Also

• Verse (8:68) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (8:68)