Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the tenth verse of chapter 6 (sūrat l-anʿām). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (6) sūrat l-anʿām (The Cattle)

Sahih International: And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by that which they used to ridicule.

Pickthall: Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.

Yusuf Ali: Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.

Shakir: And certainly messengers before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed the scoffers among them.

Muhammad Sarwar: They mocked the Messengers who lived before you (Muhammad), but those who received warnings of punishment and mocked the warnings, all suffered their torments accordingly.

Mohsin Khan: And indeed (many) Messengers were mocked before you, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.

Arberry: Messengers indeed were mocked at before thee; but those that scoffed at them were encompassed by that they mocked at.

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See Also

• Verse (6:10) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (6:10)