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

Chapter (1) sūrat l-fātiḥah (The Opening)Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow)Chapter (3) sūrat āl ʿim'rān (The Family of Imrān)Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)Chapter (5) sūrat l-māidah (The Table spread with Food)Chapter (6) sūrat l-anʿām (The Cattle)Chapter (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights)Chapter (8) sūrat l-anfāl (The Spoils of War)Chapter (9) sūrat l-tawbah (The Repentance)Chapter (10) sūrat yūnus (Jonah)Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud)Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph)Chapter (13) sūrat l-raʿd (The Thunder)Chapter (14) sūrat ib'rāhīm (Abraham)Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract)Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees)Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey)Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave)Chapter (19) sūrat maryam (Mary)Chapter (20) sūrat ṭā hāChapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets)Chapter (22) sūrat l-ḥaj (The Pilgrimage)Chapter (23) sūrat l-mu'minūn (The Believers)Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light)Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion)Chapter (26) sūrat l-shuʿarā (The Poets)Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants)Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories)Chapter (29) sūrat l-ʿankabūt (The Spider)Chapter (30) sūrat l-rūm (The Romans)Chapter (31) sūrat luq'mānChapter (32) sūrat l-sajdah (The Prostration)Chapter (33) sūrat l-aḥzāb (The Combined Forces)Chapter (34) sūrat saba (Sheba)Chapter (35) sūrat fāṭir (The Originator)Chapter (36) sūrat yā sīnChapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks)Chapter (38) sūrat ṣādChapter (39) sūrat l-zumar (The Groups)Chapter (40) sūrat ghāfir (The Forgiver God)Chapter (41) sūrat fuṣṣilat (Explained in Detail)Chapter (42) sūrat l-shūrā (Consultation)Chapter (43) sūrat l-zukh'ruf (The Gold Adornment)Chapter (44) sūrat l-dukhān (The Smoke)Chapter (45) sūrat l-jāthiyah (Crouching)Chapter (46) sūrat l-aḥqāf (The Curved Sand-hills)Chapter (47) sūrat muḥammadChapter (48) sūrat l-fatḥ (The Victory)Chapter (49) sūrat l-ḥujurāt (The Dwellings)Chapter (50) sūrat qāfChapter (51) sūrat l-dhāriyāt (The Wind that Scatter)Chapter (52) sūrat l-ṭūr (The Mount)Chapter (53) sūrat l-najm (The Star)Chapter (54) sūrat l-qamar (The Moon)Chapter (55) sūrat l-raḥmān (The Most Gracious)Chapter (56) sūrat l-wāqiʿah (The Event)Chapter (57) sūrat l-ḥadīd (The Iron)Chapter (58) sūrat l-mujādilah (She That Disputeth)Chapter (59) sūrat l-ḥashr (The Gathering)Chapter (60) sūrat l-mum'taḥanah (The Woman to be examined)Chapter (61) sūrat l-ṣaf (The Row)Chapter (62) sūrat l-jumuʿah (Friday)Chapter (63) sūrat l-munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites)Chapter (64) sūrat l-taghābun (Mutual Loss & Gain)Chapter (65) sūrat l-ṭalāq (The Divorce)Chapter (66) sūrat l-taḥrīm (The Prohibition)Chapter (67) sūrat l-mulk (Dominion)Chapter (68) sūrat l-qalam (The Pen)Chapter (69) sūrat l-ḥāqah (The Inevitable)Chapter (70) sūrat l-maʿārij (The Ways of Ascent)Chapter (71) sūrat nūḥChapter (72) sūrat l-jin (The Jinn)Chapter (73) sūrat l-muzamil (The One wrapped in Garments)Chapter (74) sūrat l-mudathir (The One Enveloped)Chapter (75) sūrat l-qiyāmah (The Resurrection)Chapter (76) sūrat l-insān (Man)Chapter (77) sūrat l-mur'salāt (Those sent forth)Chapter (78) sūrat l-naba (The Great News)Chapter (79) sūrat l-nāziʿāt (Those who Pull Out)Chapter (80) sūrat ʿabasa (He frowned)Chapter (81) sūrat l-takwīr (The Overthrowing)Chapter (82) sūrat l-infiṭār (The Cleaving)Chapter (83) sūrat l-muṭafifīn (Those Who Deal in Fraud)Chapter (84) sūrat l-inshiqāq (The Splitting Asunder)Chapter (85) sūrat l-burūj (The Big Stars)Chapter (86) sūrat l-ṭāriq (The Night-Comer)Chapter (87) sūrat l-aʿlā (The Most High)Chapter (88) sūrat l-ghāshiyah (The Overwhelming)Chapter (89) sūrat l-fajr (The Dawn)Chapter (90) sūrat l-balad (The City)Chapter (91) sūrat l-shams (The Sun)Chapter (92) sūrat l-layl (The Night)Chapter (93) sūrat l-ḍuḥā (The Forenoon)Chapter (94) sūrat l-sharḥ (The Opening Forth)Chapter (95) sūrat l-tīn (The Fig)Chapter (96) sūrat l-ʿalaq (The Clot)Chapter (97) sūrat l-qadr (The Night of Decree)Chapter (98) sūrat l-bayinah (The Clear Evidence)Chapter (99) sūrat l-zalzalah (The Earthquake)Chapter (100) sūrat l-ʿādiyāt (Those That Run)Chapter (101) sūrat l-qāriʿah (The Striking Hour)Chapter (102) sūrat l-takāthur (The piling Up)Chapter (103) sūrat l-ʿaṣr (Time)Chapter (104) sūrat l-humazah (The Slanderer)Chapter (105) sūrat l-fīl (The Elephant)Chapter (106) sūrat qurayshChapter (107) sūrat l-māʿūn (Small Kindnesses)Chapter (108) sūrat l-kawthar (A River in Paradise)Chapter (109) sūrat l-kāfirūn (The Disbelievers)Chapter (110) sūrat l-naṣr (The Help)Chapter (111) sūrat l-masad (The Palm Fibre)Chapter (112) sūrat l-ikhlāṣ (Sincerity)Chapter (113) sūrat l-falaq (The Daybreak)Chapter (114) sūrat l-nās (Mankind)

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Chapter (103) sūrat l-ʿaṣr (Time)

Sahih International: By time,

Pickthall: By the declining day,

Yusuf Ali: By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),

Shakir: I swear by the time,

Muhammad Sarwar: By the time (of the advent of Islam),

Mohsin Khan: By Al-'Asr (the time).

Arberry: By the afternoon!

See Also

• Verse (103:1) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (103:1)