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An-Nahl 16:9

وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ قَصۡدُ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَمِنۡهَا جَآئِرٞۚ وَلَوۡ شَآءَ لَهَدَىٰكُمۡ أَجۡمَعِينَ

It is upon Allah ˹alone˺ to ˹clearly˺ show the Straight Way. Other ways are deviant. Had He willed, He would have easily imposed guidance upon all of you.

Word by word

وَعَلَى
waʿalā
And upon
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
قَصۡدُ
qaṣdu
(is) the direction
Vocabulary
Root: قصد
ٱلسَّبِيلِ
l-sabīli
(of) the way
Vocabulary
Root: سبل
وَمِنۡهَا
wamin'hā
and among them
Vocabulary
جَآئِرٞۚ
jāirun
(are) crooked
Vocabulary
Root: جور
وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
شَآءَ
shāa
He willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
لَهَدَىٰكُمۡ
lahadākum
surely He would have guided you
Vocabulary
Root: هدي
أَجۡمَعِينَ
ajmaʿīna
all
Vocabulary
Root: جمع

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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.