Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 35th verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph)

Sahih International: Then it appeared to them after they had seen the signs that al-'Azeez should surely imprison him for a time.

Pickthall: And it seemed good to them (the men-folk) after they had seen the signs (of his innocence) to imprison him for a time.

Yusuf Ali: Then it occurred to the men, after they had seen the signs, (that it was best) to imprison him for a time.

Shakir: Then it occurred to them after they had seen the signs that they should imprison him till a time.

Muhammad Sarwar: Even after Joseph had been found innocent of any crime, the King and his people decided to imprison him for an appointed time (so that people would forget the incident).

Mohsin Khan: Then it appeared to them, after they had seen the proofs (of his innocence) to imprison him for a time.

Arberry: Then it seemed good to them, after they had seen the signs, that they should imprison him for a while.

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See Also

• Verse (12:35) Morphology - description of each Arabic word