Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 52nd verse of chapter 51 (sūrat l-dhāriyāt). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (51) sūrat l-dhāriyāt (The Wind that Scatter)

Sahih International: Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."

Pickthall: Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman!

Yusuf Ali: Similarly, no messenger came to the Peoples before them, but they said (of him) in like manner, "A sorcerer, or one possessed"!

Shakir: Thus there did not come to those before them a messenger but they said: A magician or a mad man.

Muhammad Sarwar: In the same way no Messenger came to those who lived before them without his people calling him a magician or an insane person.

Mohsin Khan: Likewise, no Messenger came to those before them, but they said: "A sorcerer or a madman!"

Arberry: Even so not a Messenger came to those before them but they said, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!'

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See Also

• Verse (51:52) Morphology - description of each Arabic word