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Yusuf 12:33

قَالَ رَبِّ ٱلسِّجۡنُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا يَدۡعُونَنِيٓ إِلَيۡهِۖ وَإِلَّا تَصۡرِفۡ عَنِّي كَيۡدَهُنَّ أَصۡبُ إِلَيۡهِنَّ وَأَكُن مِّنَ ٱلۡجَٰهِلِينَ

Joseph prayed, “My Lord! I would rather be in jail than do what they invite me to. And if You do not turn their cunning away from me, I might yield to them and fall into ignorance.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
رَبِّ
rabbi
My Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
ٱلسِّجۡنُ
l-sij'nu
the prison
Vocabulary
Root: سجن
أَحَبُّ
aḥabbu
(is) dearer
Vocabulary
Root: حبب
إِلَيَّ
ilayya
to me
Vocabulary
مِمَّا
mimmā
than what
Vocabulary
يَدۡعُونَنِيٓ
yadʿūnanī
they invite me
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِلَيۡهِۖ
ilayhi
to it
Vocabulary
وَإِلَّا
wa-illā
And unless
Vocabulary
تَصۡرِفۡ
taṣrif
You turn away
Vocabulary
Root: صرف
عَنِّي
ʿannī
from me
Vocabulary
كَيۡدَهُنَّ
kaydahunna
their plot
Vocabulary
Root: كيد
أَصۡبُ
aṣbu
I might incline
Vocabulary
Root: صبو
إِلَيۡهِنَّ
ilayhinna
towards them
Vocabulary
وَأَكُن
wa-akun
and [I] be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِّنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡجَٰهِلِينَ
l-jāhilīna
the ignorant
Vocabulary
Root: جهل

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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.