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An-Nahl 16:123

ثُمَّ أَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَيۡكَ أَنِ ٱتَّبِعۡ مِلَّةَ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ حَنِيفٗاۖ وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ

Then We revealed to you ˹O Prophet, saying˺: “Follow the faith of Abraham, the upright, who was not one of the polytheists.”

Word by word

ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
Vocabulary
أَوۡحَيۡنَآ
awḥaynā
We revealed
Vocabulary
Root: وحي
إِلَيۡكَ
ilayka
to you
Vocabulary
أَنِ
ani
that
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ٱتَّبِعۡ
ittabiʿ
You follow
Vocabulary
Root: تبع
مِلَّةَ
millata
(the) religion
Vocabulary
Root: ملل
إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ
ib'rāhīma
(of) Ibrahim
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حَنِيفٗاۖ
ḥanīfan
upright
Vocabulary
Root: حنف
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
he was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ
l-mush'rikīna
the polytheists
Vocabulary
Root: شرك

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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.