Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 59th 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: And those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time.

Pickthall: And (all) those townships! We destroyed them when they did wrong, and We appointed a fixed time for their destruction.

Yusuf Ali: Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.

Shakir: And (as for) these towns, We destroyed them when they acted unjustly, and We have appointed a time for their destruction.

Muhammad Sarwar: We only destroyed the inhabitants of certain towns when they had committed injustice and did not repent before Our deadline.

Mohsin Khan: And these towns (population, 'Ad, Thamud, etc.) We destroyed when they did wrong. And We appointed a fixed time for their destruction.

Arberry: And those cities, We destroyed them when they did evil, and appointed for their destruction a tryst.

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See Also

• Verse (18:59) Morphology - description of each Arabic word