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Verse (89:17) - English Translation

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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 89 (sūrat l-fajr). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

 

Chapter (89) sūrat l-fajr (The Dawn)

Sahih International: No! But you do not honor the orphan

Pickthall: Nay, but ye (for your part) honour not the orphan

Yusuf Ali: Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!

Shakir: Nay! but you do not honor the orphan,

Muhammad Sarwar: (Since wealth does not necessarily guarantee everlasting happiness) then why do you not show kindness to the orphans,

Mohsin Khan: Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity (i.e. you neither treat them well, nor give them their exact right of inheritance)!

Arberry: No indeed; but you honour not the orphan,

See Also

Language Research Group
University of Leeds
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