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Al-Baqarah 2:154

وَلَا تَقُولُواْ لِمَن يُقۡتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ أَمۡوَٰتُۢۚ بَلۡ أَحۡيَآءٞ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تَشۡعُرُونَ

Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it.

Word by word

وَلَا
walā
And (do) not
Vocabulary
تَقُولُواْ
taqūlū
say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِمَن
liman
for (the ones) who
Vocabulary
يُقۡتَلُ
yuq'talu
are slain
Vocabulary
Root: قتل
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
سَبِيلِ
sabīli
(the) way
Vocabulary
Root: سبل
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
(of) Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
أَمۡوَٰتُۢۚ
amwātun
(They are) dead
Vocabulary
Root: موت
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
أَحۡيَآءٞ
aḥyāon
(they are) alive
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
وَلَٰكِن
walākin
[and] but
Vocabulary
لَّا
lā
you (do) not
Vocabulary
تَشۡعُرُونَ
tashʿurūna
perceive
Vocabulary
Root: شعر

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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.