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Verse (2:103) - 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 103rd verse of chapter 2 (sūrat l-baqarah). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow)

Sahih International: And if they had believed and feared Allah , then the reward from Allah would have been [far] better, if they only knew.

Pickthall: And if they had believed and kept from evil, a recompense from Allah would be better, if they only knew.

Yusuf Ali: If they had kept their Faith and guarded themselves from evil, far better had been the reward from their Lord, if they but knew!

Shakir: And if they had believed and guarded themselves (against evil), reward from Allah would certainly have been better; had they but known (this).

Muhammad Sarwar: Would that they had known that if they had embraced the faith and avoided evil, they would have received better rewards from God.

Mohsin Khan: And if they had believed, and guarded themselves from evil and kept their duty to Allah, far better would have been the reward from their Lord, if they but knew!

Arberry: Yet had they believed, and been godfearing, a recompense from God had been better, if they had but known.

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