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Al-Isra 17:85

وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلرُّوحِۖ قُلِ ٱلرُّوحُ مِنۡ أَمۡرِ رَبِّي وَمَآ أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ ٱلۡعِلۡمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٗا

They ask you ˹O Prophet˺ about the spirit. Say, “Its nature is known only to my Lord, and you ˹O humanity˺ have been given but little knowledge.”

Word by word

وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ
wayasalūnaka
And they ask you
Vocabulary
Root: سال
عَنِ
ʿani
concerning
Vocabulary
ٱلرُّوحِۖ
l-rūḥi
the soul
Vocabulary
Root: روح
قُلِ
quli
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلرُّوحُ
l-rūḥu
The soul
Vocabulary
Root: روح
مِنۡ
min
(is) of
Vocabulary
أَمۡرِ
amri
(the) affair
Vocabulary
Root: امر
رَبِّي
rabbī
(of) my Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
وَمَآ
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
أُوتِيتُم
ūtītum
you have been given
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
مِّنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡعِلۡمِ
l-ʿil'mi
the knowledge
Vocabulary
Root: علم
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
قَلِيلٗا
qalīlan
a little
Vocabulary
Root: قلل

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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.