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Verse (18:12) - English Translation

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Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twelfth verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave)

Sahih International: Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time.

Pickthall: And afterward We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarried.

Yusuf Ali: Then We roused them, in order to test which of the two parties was best at calculating the term of years they had tarried!

Shakir: Then We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties was best able to compute the time for which they remained.

Muhammad Sarwar: Then We roused them to find out which of the party had the correct account of the duration of their sleep in the cave.

Mohsin Khan: Then We raised them up (from their sleep), that We might test which of the two parties was best at calculating the time period that they had tarried.

Arberry: Afterwards. We raised them up again, that We might know which of the two parties would better calculate the while they had tarried.

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