Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twentieth verse of chapter 68 (sūrat l-qalam). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (68) sūrat l-qalam (The Pen)

Sahih International: And it became as though reaped.

Pickthall: And in the morning it was as if plucked.

Yusuf Ali: So the (garden) became, by the morning, like a dark and desolate spot, (whose fruit had been gathered).

Shakir: So it became as black, barren land.

Muhammad Sarwar: and the garden was turned into a barren desert.

Mohsin Khan: So the (garden) became black by the morning, like a pitch dark night (in complete ruins).

Arberry: and in the morning it was as if it were a garden plucked.

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See Also

• Verse (68:20) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (68:20)