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Al-Isra 17:31

وَلَا تَقۡتُلُوٓاْ أَوۡلَٰدَكُمۡ خَشۡيَةَ إِمۡلَٰقٖۖ نَّحۡنُ نَرۡزُقُهُمۡ وَإِيَّاكُمۡۚ إِنَّ قَتۡلَهُمۡ كَانَ خِطۡـٔٗا كَبِيرٗا

Do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Surely killing them is a heinous sin.

Word by word

وَلَا
walā
And (do) not
Vocabulary
تَقۡتُلُوٓاْ
taqtulū
kill
Vocabulary
Root: قتل
أَوۡلَٰدَكُمۡ
awlādakum
your children
Vocabulary
Root: ولد
خَشۡيَةَ
khashyata
(for) fear
Vocabulary
Root: خشي
إِمۡلَٰقٖۖ
im'lāqin
(of) poverty
Vocabulary
Root: ملق
نَّحۡنُ
naḥnu
We
Vocabulary
نَرۡزُقُهُمۡ
narzuquhum
(We) provide for them
Vocabulary
Root: رزق
وَإِيَّاكُمۡۚ
wa-iyyākum
and for you
Vocabulary
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
قَتۡلَهُمۡ
qatlahum
their killing
Vocabulary
Root: قتل
كَانَ
kāna
is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
خِطۡـٔٗا
khiṭ'an
a sin
Vocabulary
Root: خطا
كَبِيرٗا
kabīran
great
Vocabulary
Root: كبر

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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.