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An-Nahl 16:101

وَإِذَا بَدَّلۡنَآ ءَايَةٗ مَّكَانَ ءَايَةٖ وَٱللَّهُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا يُنَزِّلُ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُفۡتَرِۭۚ بَلۡ أَكۡثَرُهُمۡ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ

When We replace a verse with another—and Allah knows best what He reveals—they say, “You ˹Muḥammad˺ are just a fabricator.” In fact, most of them do not know.

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
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بَدَّلۡنَآ
baddalnā
We substitute
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Root: بدل
ءَايَةٗ
āyatan
a Verse
Vocabulary
Root: ايي
مَّكَانَ
makāna
(in) place
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Root: كون
ءَايَةٖ
āyatin
(of) a Verse
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Root: ايي
وَٱللَّهُ
wal-lahu
and Allah
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Root: اله
أَعۡلَمُ
aʿlamu
(is) most knowing
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Root: علم
بِمَا
bimā
of what
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يُنَزِّلُ
yunazzilu
He sends down
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Root: نزل
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they say
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Root: قول
إِنَّمَآ
innamā
Only
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أَنتَ
anta
you
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مُفۡتَرِۭۚ
muf'tarin
(are) an inventor
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Root: فري
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
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أَكۡثَرُهُمۡ
aktharuhum
most of them
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Root: كثر
لَا
lā
(do) not
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يَعۡلَمُونَ
yaʿlamūna
know
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Root: علم

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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.