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Hud 11:116

فَلَوۡلَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡقُرُونِ مِن قَبۡلِكُمۡ أُوْلُواْ بَقِيَّةٖ يَنۡهَوۡنَ عَنِ ٱلۡفَسَادِ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٗا مِّمَّنۡ أَنجَيۡنَا مِنۡهُمۡۗ وَٱتَّبَعَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مَآ أُتۡرِفُواْ فِيهِ وَكَانُواْ مُجۡرِمِينَ

If only there had been among the ˹destroyed˺ peoples before you, ˹O believers,˺ virtuous individuals who forbade corruption in the land—other than the few We had saved ˹from the torment˺. But the wrongdoers ˹only˺ pursued their ˹worldly˺ pleasures, becoming wicked.

Word by word

فَلَوۡلَا
falawlā
So why not
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كَانَ
kāna
had been
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡقُرُونِ
l-qurūni
the generations
Vocabulary
Root: قرن
مِن
min
before you
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قَبۡلِكُمۡ
qablikum
before you
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
أُوْلُواْ
ulū
those possessing a remnant
Vocabulary
Root: اول
بَقِيَّةٖ
baqiyyatin
those possessing a remnant
Vocabulary
Root: بقي
يَنۡهَوۡنَ
yanhawna
forbidding
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Root: نهي
عَنِ
ʿani
from
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ٱلۡفَسَادِ
l-fasādi
the corruption
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Root: فسد
فِي
fī
in
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ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
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Root: ارض
إِلَّا
illā
except
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قَلِيلٗا
qalīlan
a few
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Root: قلل
مِّمَّنۡ
mimman
of those
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أَنجَيۡنَا
anjaynā
We saved
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Root: نجو
مِنۡهُمۡۗ
min'hum
among them
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وَٱتَّبَعَ
wa-ittabaʿa
But followed
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Root: تبع
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those who
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ظَلَمُواْ
ẓalamū
did wrong
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Root: ظلم
مَآ
mā
what
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أُتۡرِفُواْ
ut'rifū
luxury they were given
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Root: ترف
فِيهِ
fīhi
therein
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وَكَانُواْ
wakānū
and they were
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Root: كون
مُجۡرِمِينَ
muj'rimīna
criminals
Vocabulary
Root: جرم

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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.