Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twelfth verse of chapter 72 (sūrat l-jin). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (72) sūrat l-jin (The Jinn)

Sahih International: And we have become certain that we will never cause failure to Allah upon earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.

Pickthall: And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.

Yusuf Ali: 'But we think that we can by no means frustrate Allah throughout the earth, nor can we frustrate Him by flight.

Shakir: And that we know that we cannot escape Allah in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight:

Muhammad Sarwar: We knew that we could never challenge God whether we stayed on earth or fled elsewhere.

Mohsin Khan: 'And we think that we cannot escape (from the punishment of) All?h in the earth, nor can we escape (from the punishment) by flight.

Arberry: Indeed, we thought that we should never be able to frustrate God in the earth, neither be able to frustrate Him by flight.

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See Also

• Verse (72:12) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (72:12)