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Yusuf 12:81

ٱرۡجِعُوٓاْ إِلَىٰٓ أَبِيكُمۡ فَقُولُواْ يَـٰٓأَبَانَآ إِنَّ ٱبۡنَكَ سَرَقَ وَمَا شَهِدۡنَآ إِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمۡنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلۡغَيۡبِ حَٰفِظِينَ

Return to your father and say, ‘O our father! Your son committed theft. We testify only to what we know. We could not guard against the unforeseen.

Word by word

ٱرۡجِعُوٓاْ
ir'jiʿū
Return
Vocabulary
Root: رجع
إِلَىٰٓ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
أَبِيكُمۡ
abīkum
your father
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
فَقُولُواْ
faqūlū
and say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَـٰٓأَبَانَآ
yāabānā
O our father!
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
ٱبۡنَكَ
ib'naka
your son
Vocabulary
Root: بني
سَرَقَ
saraqa
has stolen
Vocabulary
Root: سرق
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
شَهِدۡنَآ
shahid'nā
we testify
Vocabulary
Root: شهد
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
بِمَا
bimā
of what
Vocabulary
عَلِمۡنَا
ʿalim'nā
we knew
Vocabulary
Root: علم
وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِلۡغَيۡبِ
lil'ghaybi
of the unseen
Vocabulary
Root: غيب
حَٰفِظِينَ
ḥāfiẓīna
guardians
Vocabulary
Root: حفظ

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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.