Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 68th verse of chapter 27 (sūrat l-naml). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants)

Sahih International: We have been promised this, we and our forefathers, before. This is not but legends of the former peoples."

Pickthall: We were promised this, forsooth, we and our fathers. (All) this is naught but fables of the men of old.

Yusuf Ali: "It is true we were promised this,- we and our fathers before (us): these are nothing but tales of the ancients."

Shakir: We have certainly been promised this, we and our fathers before; these are naught but stories of the ancients

Muhammad Sarwar: It was promised to us and to our fathers before us. It is only ancient legends."

Mohsin Khan: "Indeed we were promised this, we and our forefathers before, Verily, these are nothing but tales of ancients."

Arberry: We have been promised this, and our fathers before; this is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients.'

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See Also

• Verse (27:68) Morphology - description of each Arabic word