Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the second verse of chapter 63 (sūrat l-munāfiqūn). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (63) sūrat l-munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites)

Sahih International: They have taken their oaths as a cover, so they averted [people] from the way of Allah. Indeed, it was evil that they were doing.

Pickthall: They make their faith a pretext so that they may turn (men) from the way of Allah. Verily evil is that which they are wont to do,

Yusuf Ali: They have made their oaths a screen (for their misdeeds): thus they obstruct (men) from the Path of Allah: truly evil are their deeds.

Shakir: They make their oaths a shelter, and thus turn away from Allah's way; surely evil is that which they do.

Muhammad Sarwar: They have chosen their oaths as a shield for them to obstruct others from the way of God. How terrible is what they do!

Mohsin Khan: They have made their oaths a screen (for their hypocrisy). Thus they hinder (men) from the Path of Allah. Verily, evil is what they used to do.

Arberry: They have taken their oaths as a covering, then they have barred from the way of God. Surely they -- evil are the things they have been doing.

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See Also

• Verse (63:2) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (63:2)