Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 24th verse of chapter 54 (sūrat l-qamar). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (54) sūrat l-qamar (The Moon)

Sahih International: And said, "Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness.

Pickthall: For they said; Is it a mortal man, alone among us, that we are to follow? Then indeed we should fall into error and madness.

Yusuf Ali: For they said: "What! a man! a Solitary one from among ourselves! shall we follow such a one? Truly should we then be straying in mind, and mad!

Shakir: So they said: What! a single mortal from among us! Shall we follow him? Most surely we shall in that case be in sure error and distress:

Muhammad Sarwar: They said, "Should we follow only one person among us. We shall be clearly in error and in trouble (if we do so).

Mohsin Khan: For they said: "A man! Alone from among us, that we are to follow? Truly, then we should be in error and distress or madness!"

Arberry: and said, 'What, shall we follow a mortal, one out of ourselves? Then indeed we should be in error and insanity!

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See Also

• Verse (54:24) Morphology - description of each Arabic word