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Al-Kahf 18:104

ٱلَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعۡيُهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا وَهُمۡ يَحۡسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمۡ يُحۡسِنُونَ صُنۡعًا

˹They are˺ those whose efforts are in vain in this worldly life, while they think they are doing good!”

Word by word

ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
Those
Vocabulary
ضَلَّ
ḍalla
is lost
Vocabulary
Root: ضلل
سَعۡيُهُمۡ
saʿyuhum
their effort
Vocabulary
Root: سعي
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ
l-ḥayati
the life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
ٱلدُّنۡيَا
l-dun'yā
(of) the world
Vocabulary
Root: دنو
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
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يَحۡسَبُونَ
yaḥsabūna
think
Vocabulary
Root: حسب
أَنَّهُمۡ
annahum
that they
Vocabulary
يُحۡسِنُونَ
yuḥ'sinūna
(were) acquiring good
Vocabulary
Root: حسن
صُنۡعًا
ṣun'ʿan
(in) work
Vocabulary
Root: صنع

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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.