Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 49th verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey)

Sahih International: And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"

Pickthall: And they say: When we are bones and fragments, shall we forsooth, be raised up as a new creation?

Yusuf Ali: They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"

Shakir: And they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then certainly be raised up, being a new creation?

Muhammad Sarwar: The pagans say, "When we become mere bones and dust, shall we then be brought back to life again?"

Mohsin Khan: And they say: "When we are bones and fragments (destroyed), should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation?"

Arberry: They say, 'What, when we are bones and broken bits, shall we really be raised up again in a new creation?'

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See Also

• Verse (17:49) Morphology - description of each Arabic word