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 90 (sūrat l-balad). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (90) sūrat l-balad (The City)

Sahih International: I swear by this city, Makkah -

Pickthall: Nay, I swear by this city -

Yusuf Ali: I do call to witness this City;-

Shakir: Nay! I swear by this city.

Muhammad Sarwar: I do not (need to) swear by this town (Mecca)

Mohsin Khan: I swear by this city (Makkah);

Arberry: No! I swear by this land,

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See Also

• Verse (90:1) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (90:1)