Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 85th 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: And Our angels are nearer to him than you, but you do not see -

Pickthall: - And We are nearer unto him than ye are, but ye see not -

Yusuf Ali: But We are nearer to him than ye, and yet see not,-

Shakir: And We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see--

Muhammad Sarwar: We are closer to him than you, but you cannot see.

Mohsin Khan: But We (i.e. Our angels who take the soul) are nearer to him than you, but you see not, [Tafsir At-Tabari, Vol.27, Page 209]

Arberry: (And We are nigher him than you, but you do not see Us)

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See Also

• Verse (56:85) Morphology - description of each Arabic word