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Al-Isra 17:56

قُلِ ٱدۡعُواْ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمۡتُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ فَلَا يَمۡلِكُونَ كَشۡفَ ٱلضُّرِّ عَنكُمۡ وَلَا تَحۡوِيلًا

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Invoke those you claim ˹to be divine˺ besides Him—they do not have the power to undo harm from you or transfer it ˹to someone else˺.”

Word by word

قُلِ
quli
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱدۡعُواْ
id'ʿū
Call
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those whom
Vocabulary
زَعَمۡتُم
zaʿamtum
you claimed
Vocabulary
Root: زعم
مِّن
min
besides Him
Vocabulary
دُونِهِۦ
dūnihi
besides Him
Vocabulary
فَلَا
falā
[then] not
Vocabulary
يَمۡلِكُونَ
yamlikūna
they have power
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
كَشۡفَ
kashfa
(to) remove
Vocabulary
Root: كشف
ٱلضُّرِّ
l-ḍuri
the misfortunes
Vocabulary
Root: ضرر
عَنكُمۡ
ʿankum
from you
Vocabulary
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
تَحۡوِيلًا
taḥwīlan
(to) transfer (it)
Vocabulary
Root: حول

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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.