Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 117th 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: Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, "Be," and it is.

Pickthall: The Originator of the heavens and the earth! When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.

Yusuf Ali: To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is.

Shakir: Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it, Be, so there it is.

Muhammad Sarwar: God is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. Whenever He decides to do anything, He just commands it to exist and it comes into existence.

Mohsin Khan: The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it : "Be!" - and it is.

Arberry: the Creator of the heavens and the earth; and when He decrees a thing, He but says to it 'Be,' and it is.

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See Also

• Verse (2:117) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (2:117)