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Al-Isra 17:11

وَيَدۡعُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ بِٱلشَّرِّ دُعَآءَهُۥ بِٱلۡخَيۡرِۖ وَكَانَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ عَجُولٗا

And humans ˹swiftly˺ pray for evil as they pray for good. For humankind is ever hasty.

Word by word

وَيَدۡعُ
wayadʿu
And prays
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ
l-insānu
the man
Vocabulary
Root: انس
بِٱلشَّرِّ
bil-shari
for evil
Vocabulary
Root: شرر
دُعَآءَهُۥ
duʿāahu
(as) he prays
Vocabulary
بِٱلۡخَيۡرِۖ
bil-khayri
for the good
Vocabulary
Root: خير
وَكَانَ
wakāna
And is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ
l-insānu
the man
Vocabulary
Root: انس
عَجُولٗا
ʿajūlan
ever hasty
Vocabulary
Root: عجل

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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.