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An-Nahl 16:126

وَإِنۡ عَاقَبۡتُمۡ فَعَاقِبُواْ بِمِثۡلِ مَا عُوقِبۡتُم بِهِۦۖ وَلَئِن صَبَرۡتُمۡ لَهُوَ خَيۡرٞ لِّلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

If you retaliate, then let it be equivalent to what you have suffered. But if you patiently endure, it is certainly best for those who are patient.

Word by word

وَإِنۡ
wa-in
And if
Vocabulary
عَاقَبۡتُمۡ
ʿāqabtum
you retaliate
Vocabulary
Root: عقب
فَعَاقِبُواْ
faʿāqibū
then retaliate
Vocabulary
Root: عقب
بِمِثۡلِ
bimith'li
with the like
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
مَا
mā
of what
Vocabulary
عُوقِبۡتُم
ʿūqib'tum
you were afflicted
Vocabulary
Root: عقب
بِهِۦۖ
bihi
with [it]
Vocabulary
وَلَئِن
wala-in
But if
Vocabulary
صَبَرۡتُمۡ
ṣabartum
you are patient
Vocabulary
Root: صبر
لَهُوَ
lahuwa
surely (it) is
Vocabulary
خَيۡرٞ
khayrun
better
Vocabulary
Root: خير
لِّلصَّـٰبِرِينَ
lilṣṣābirīna
for those who are patient
Vocabulary
Root: صبر

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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.