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Hud 11:102

وَكَذَٰلِكَ أَخۡذُ رَبِّكَ إِذَآ أَخَذَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ وَهِيَ ظَٰلِمَةٌۚ إِنَّ أَخۡذَهُۥٓ أَلِيمٞ شَدِيدٌ

Such is the ˹crushing˺ grip of your Lord when He seizes the societies entrenched in wrongdoing. Indeed, His grip is ˹terribly˺ painful and severe.

Word by word

وَكَذَٰلِكَ
wakadhālika
And thus
Vocabulary
أَخۡذُ
akhdhu
(is) the seizure (of) your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
رَبِّكَ
rabbika
(is) the seizure (of) your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
إِذَآ
idhā
when
Vocabulary
أَخَذَ
akhadha
He seizes
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ٱلۡقُرَىٰ
l-qurā
the cities
Vocabulary
Root: قري
وَهِيَ
wahiya
while they
Vocabulary
ظَٰلِمَةٌۚ
ẓālimatun
(are) doing wrong
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
أَخۡذَهُۥٓ
akhdhahu
His seizure
Vocabulary
أَلِيمٞ
alīmun
(is) painful
Vocabulary
Root: الم
شَدِيدٌ
shadīdun
(and) severe
Vocabulary
Root: شدد

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.