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Al-Isra 17:42

قُل لَّوۡ كَانَ مَعَهُۥٓ ءَالِهَةٞ كَمَا يَقُولُونَ إِذٗا لَّٱبۡتَغَوۡاْ إِلَىٰ ذِي ٱلۡعَرۡشِ سَبِيلٗا

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Had there been other gods besides Him—as they claim—then they would have certainly sought a way to ˹challenge˺ the Lord of the Throne.”

Word by word

قُل
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَّوۡ
law
If
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
(there) were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مَعَهُۥٓ
maʿahu
with Him
Vocabulary
ءَالِهَةٞ
ālihatun
gods
Vocabulary
Root: اله
كَمَا
kamā
as
Vocabulary
يَقُولُونَ
yaqūlūna
they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِذٗا
idhan
then
Vocabulary
لَّٱبۡتَغَوۡاْ
la-ib'taghaw
surely they (would) have sought
Vocabulary
Root: بغي
إِلَىٰ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
ذِي
dhī
(the) Owner
Vocabulary
ٱلۡعَرۡشِ
l-ʿarshi
(of) the Throne
Vocabulary
Root: عرش
سَبِيلٗا
sabīlan
a way
Vocabulary
Root: سبل

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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.