Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the seventeenth verse of chapter 70 (sūrat l-maʿārij). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (70) sūrat l-maʿārij (The Ways of Ascent)

Sahih International: It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

Pickthall: It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),

Yusuf Ali: Inviting (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from the Right).

Shakir: It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),

Muhammad Sarwar: and drag into it anyone who has turned away (from obeying God),

Mohsin Khan: Calling: "[O Kafir (O disbeliever in Allah, His angels, His Book, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection and in Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments), O Mushrik (O polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah)] (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind (on the Day of Resurrection) just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] [Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, Vol. 18, Page 289]

Arberry: calling him who drew back and turned away,

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See Also

• Verse (70:17) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (70:17)