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An-Nahl 16:107

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ ٱسۡتَحَبُّواْ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡيَا عَلَى ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهۡدِي ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ

This is because they prefer the life of this world over the Hereafter. Surely Allah never guides those who ˹choose to˺ disbelieve.

Word by word

ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
That (is)
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بِأَنَّهُمُ
bi-annahumu
because
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ٱسۡتَحَبُّواْ
is'taḥabbū
they preferred
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Root: حبب
ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ
l-ḥayata
the life
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Root: حيي
ٱلدُّنۡيَا
l-dun'yā
(of) the world
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Root: دنو
عَلَى
ʿalā
over
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ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ
l-ākhirati
the Hereafter
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وَأَنَّ
wa-anna
and that
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ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allah
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Root: اله
لَا
lā
(does) not
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يَهۡدِي
yahdī
guide
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Root: هدي
ٱلۡقَوۡمَ
l-qawma
the people
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Root: قوم
ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ
l-kāfirīna
the disbelievers
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Root: كفر

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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.