Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 57th verse of chapter 40 (sūrat ghāfir). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (40) sūrat ghāfir (The Forgiver God)

Sahih International: The creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of the people do not know.

Pickthall: Assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind; but most of mankind know not.

Yusuf Ali: Assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is a greater (matter) than the creation of men: Yet most men understand not.

Shakir: Certainly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of the men, but most people do not know

Muhammad Sarwar: The creation of the heavens and the earth is certainly greater than the creation of mankind, but most people do not know.

Mohsin Khan: The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind, yet most of mankind know not.

Arberry: Certainly the creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of men; but most men know it not.

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See Also

• Verse (40:57) Morphology - description of each Arabic word