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Maryam 19:42

إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ يَـٰٓأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعۡبُدُ مَا لَا يَسۡمَعُ وَلَا يُبۡصِرُ وَلَا يُغۡنِي عَنكَ شَيۡـٔٗا

˹Remember˺ when he said to his father, “O dear father! Why do you worship what can neither hear nor see, nor benefit you at all?

Word by word

إِذۡ
idh
When
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
he said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِأَبِيهِ
li-abīhi
to his father
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
يَـٰٓأَبَتِ
yāabati
O my father!
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
لِمَ
lima
Why
Vocabulary
تَعۡبُدُ
taʿbudu
(do) you worship
Vocabulary
Root: عبد
مَا
mā
that which
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَسۡمَعُ
yasmaʿu
hears
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يُبۡصِرُ
yub'ṣiru
sees
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يُغۡنِي
yugh'nī
benefits
Vocabulary
Root: غني
عَنكَ
ʿanka
[to] you
Vocabulary
شَيۡـٔٗا
shayan
(in) anything
Vocabulary
Root: شيا

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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.