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Al-Baqarah 2:11

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمۡ لَا تُفۡسِدُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّمَا نَحۡنُ مُصۡلِحُونَ

When they are told, “Do not spread corruption in the land,” they reply, “We are only peace-makers!”

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
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قِيلَ
qīla
it is said
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Root: قول
لَهُمۡ
lahum
to them
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لَا
lā
(Do) not
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تُفۡسِدُواْ
tuf'sidū
spread corruption
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Root: فسد
فِي
fī
in
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ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
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Root: ارض
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they say
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Root: قول
إِنَّمَا
innamā
Only
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نَحۡنُ
naḥnu
we
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مُصۡلِحُونَ
muṣ'liḥūna
(are) reformers
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Root: صلح

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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.