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 56 (sūrat l-wāqiʿah). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (56) sūrat l-wāqiʿah (The Event)

Sahih International: When the Occurrence occurs,

Pickthall: When the event befalleth -

Yusuf Ali: When the Event inevitable cometh to pass,

Shakir: When the great event comes to pass,

Muhammad Sarwar: When the inevitable event comes,

Mohsin Khan: When the Event (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) befalls.

Arberry: When the Terror descends

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See Also

• Verse (56:1) Morphology - description of each Arabic word