Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the first verse of chapter 53 (sūrat l-najm). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (53) sūrat l-najm (The Star)

Sahih International: By the star when it descends,

Pickthall: By the Star when it setteth,

Yusuf Ali: By the Star when it goes down,-

Shakir: I swear by the star when it goes down.

Muhammad Sarwar: By the declining star,

Mohsin Khan: By the star when it goes down, (or vanishes).

Arberry: By the Star when it plunges,

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See Also

• Verse (53:1) Morphology - description of each Arabic word