Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the eighth verse of chapter 24 (sūrat l-nūr). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light)

Sahih International: But it will prevent punishment from her if she gives four testimonies [swearing] by Allah that indeed, he is of the liars.

Pickthall: And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false,

Yusuf Ali: But it would avert the punishment from the wife, if she bears witness four times (with an oath) By Allah, that (her husband) is telling a lie;

Shakir: And it shall avert the chastisement from her if she testify four times, bearing Allah to witness that he is most surely one of the liars;

Muhammad Sarwar: The spouse will be acquitted of the punishment if she challenges his testimony by saying four times, "God is my witness that he is a liar".

Mohsin Khan: But it shall avert the punishment (of stoning to death) from her, if she bears witness four times by Allah, that he (her husband) is telling a lie.

Arberry: It shall avert from her the chastisement if she testify by God four times that he is of the liars,

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See Also

• Verse (24:8) Morphology - description of each Arabic word