Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 79th 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: He said, "[I seek] the refuge of Allah [to prevent] that we take except him with whom we found our possession. Indeed, we would then be unjust."

Pickthall: He said: Allah forbid that we should seize save him with whom we found our property; then truly we should be wrong-doers.

Yusuf Ali: He said: "Allah forbid that we take other than him with whom we found our property: indeed (if we did so), we should be acting wrongfully.

Shakir: He said: Allah protect us that we should seize other than him with whom we found our property, for then most surely we would be unjust.

Muhammad Sarwar: He replied, "God forbid! How could I take someone in place of the thief? In doing so I would be committing injustice."

Mohsin Khan: He said: "Allah forbid, that we should take anyone but him with whom we found our property. Indeed (if we did so), we should be Zalimun (wrong-doers)."

Arberry: He said, 'God forbid that we should take any other but him in whose possession we found the goods; for if we did so, we would be evildoers.'

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See Also

• Verse (12:79) Morphology - description of each Arabic word