Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 21st 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: O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous -

Pickthall: O mankind! worship your Lord, Who hath created you and those before you, so that ye may ward off (evil).

Yusuf Ali: O ye people! Adore your Guardian-Lord, who created you and those who came before you, that ye may have the chance to learn righteousness;

Shakir: O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so that you may guard (against evil).

Muhammad Sarwar: People, worship your Lord who created you and those who lived before you, so that you may become pious.

Mohsin Khan: O mankind! Worship your Lord (Allah), Who created you and those who were before you so that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).

Arberry: O you men, serve your Lord Who created you, and those that were before you; haply so you will be godfearing;

Verse 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26

See Also

• Verse (2:21) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (2:21)