Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 58th verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets)

Sahih International: So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question].

Pickthall: Then he reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it.

Yusuf Ali: So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest of them, that they might turn (and address themselves) to it.

Shakir: So he broke them into pieces, except the chief of them, that haply they may return to it.

Muhammad Sarwar: He broke all the idols into pieces, except the biggest among them so that perhaps people would refer to it.

Mohsin Khan: So he broke them to pieces, (all) except the biggest of them, that they might turn to it.

Arberry: So he broke them into fragments, all but a great one they had, for haply they would return to it.

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See Also

• Verse (21:58) Morphology - description of each Arabic word