The Quranic Arabic Corpus

Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the third 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 (103) sūrat l-ʿaṣr (Time)

Sahih International: Then you will surely be asked that Day about pleasure.

Pickthall: Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

Yusuf Ali: Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.

Shakir: Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.

Muhammad Sarwar: except the righteously striving believers who exhort each other to truthful purposes and to patience.

Mohsin Khan: Except those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma'which Allah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar which Allah has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allah's Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad, etc.).

Arberry: save those who believe, and do righteous deeds, and counsel each other unto the truth, and counsel each other to be steadfast.

Quran Recitation by Saad Al-Ghamadi

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Verse (103:3) - English Translation

Chapter (103) sūrat l-ʿaṣr (Time)

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