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Al-Baqarah 2:16

أُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشۡتَرَوُاْ ٱلضَّلَٰلَةَ بِٱلۡهُدَىٰ فَمَا رَبِحَت تِّجَٰرَتُهُمۡ وَمَا كَانُواْ مُهۡتَدِينَ

They are the ones who trade guidance for misguidance. But this trade is profitless, and they are not ˹rightly˺ guided.

Word by word

أُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ
ulāika
Those
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ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
(are) the ones who
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ٱشۡتَرَوُاْ
ish'tarawū
bought
Vocabulary
Root: شري
ٱلضَّلَٰلَةَ
l-ḍalālata
[the] astraying
Vocabulary
Root: ضلل
بِٱلۡهُدَىٰ
bil-hudā
for [the] guidance
Vocabulary
Root: هدي
فَمَا
famā
So not
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رَبِحَت
rabiḥat
profited
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Root: ربح
تِّجَٰرَتُهُمۡ
tijāratuhum
their commerce
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Root: تجر
وَمَا
wamā
and not
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كَانُواْ
kānū
were they
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Root: كون
مُهۡتَدِينَ
muh'tadīna
guided-ones
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Root: هدي

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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.