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 3 (sūrat āl ʿim'rān). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (3) sūrat āl ʿim'rān (The Family of Imrān)

Sahih International: Similar situations [as yours] have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.

Pickthall: Systems have passed away before you. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who did deny (the messengers).

Yusuf Ali: Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

Shakir: Indeed there have been examples before you; therefore travel in the earth and see what was the end of the rejecters.

Muhammad Sarwar: Different traditions existed in the past. Travel in the land and find out about the fate of those who rejected the Truth.

Mohsin Khan: Many similar ways (and mishaps of life) were faced by nations (believers and disbelievers) that have passed away before you (as you have faced in the battle of Uhud), so travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who disbelieved (in the Oneness of Allah, and disobeyed Him and His Messengers).

Arberry: Divers institutions have passed away before you; journey in the land, and behold how was the end of those that cried lies.

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

See Also

• Verse (3:137) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (3:137)