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Hud 11:118

وَلَوۡ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ أُمَّةٗ وَٰحِدَةٗۖ وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخۡتَلِفِينَ

Had your Lord so willed, He would have certainly made humanity one single community ˹of believers˺, but they will always ˹choose to˺ differ—

Word by word

وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
شَآءَ
shāa
your Lord (had) willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
رَبُّكَ
rabbuka
your Lord (had) willed
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
لَجَعَلَ
lajaʿala
surely He (could) have made
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
ٱلنَّاسَ
l-nāsa
the mankind
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
أُمَّةٗ
ummatan
one community
Vocabulary
Root: امم
وَٰحِدَةٗۖ
wāḥidatan
one community
Vocabulary
Root: وحد
وَلَا
walā
but not
Vocabulary
يَزَالُونَ
yazālūna
they will cease
Vocabulary
Root: زيل
مُخۡتَلِفِينَ
mukh'talifīna
to differ
Vocabulary
Root: خلف

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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.