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Verse (22:12) - 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 twelfth verse of chapter 22 (sūrat l-ḥaj). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (22) sūrat l-ḥaj (The Pilgrimage)

Sahih International: He invokes instead of Allah that which neither harms him nor benefits him. That is what is the extreme error.

Pickthall: He calleth, beside Allah, unto that which hurteth him not nor benefiteth him. That is the far error.

Yusuf Ali: They call on such deities, besides Allah, as can neither hurt nor profit them: that is straying far indeed (from the Way)!

Shakir: He calls besides Allah upon that which does not harm him and that which does not profit him, that is the great straying.

Muhammad Sarwar: They worship things instead of God which can neither harm them nor benefit them. This is indeed to stray far away from the right path.

Mohsin Khan: He calls besides Allah unto that which hurts him not, nor profits him. That is a straying far away.

Arberry: He calls, apart from God, upon that which hurts him not, and which neither profits him anything; that is indeed the far error.

See Also

Language Research Group
University of Leeds
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