Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 137th verse of chapter 26 (sūrat l-shuʿarā). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (26) sūrat l-shuʿarā (The Poets)

Sahih International: This is not but the custom of the former peoples,

Pickthall: This is but a fable of the men of old,

Yusuf Ali: "This is no other than a customary device of the ancients,

Shakir: This is naught but a custom of the ancients;

Muhammad Sarwar: your preaching is nothing but ancient legends and we shall not face any torment".

Mohsin Khan: "This is no other than the false-tales and religion of the ancients, [Tafsir At-Tabari, Vol.19, Page 97]

Arberry: this is nothing but the habit of the ancients,

Verse 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142

See Also

• Verse (26:137) Morphology - description of each Arabic word