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Al-Baqarah 2:170

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّبِعُواْ مَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ قَالُواْ بَلۡ نَتَّبِعُ مَآ أَلۡفَيۡنَا عَلَيۡهِ ءَابَآءَنَآۚ أَوَلَوۡ كَانَ ءَابَآؤُهُمۡ لَا يَعۡقِلُونَ شَيۡـٔٗا وَلَا يَهۡتَدُونَ

When it is said to them, “Follow what Allah has revealed,” they reply, “No! We ˹only˺ follow what we found our forefathers practicing.” ˹Would they still do so,˺ even if their forefathers had ˹absolutely˺ no understanding or guidance?

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
قِيلَ
qīla
it is said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَهُمُ
lahumu
to them
Vocabulary
ٱتَّبِعُواْ
ittabiʿū
Follow
Vocabulary
Root: تبع
مَآ
mā
what
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أَنزَلَ
anzala
has revealed
Vocabulary
Root: نزل
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
قَالُواْ
qālū
they said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
نَتَّبِعُ
nattabiʿu
we follow
Vocabulary
Root: تبع
مَآ
mā
what
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أَلۡفَيۡنَا
alfaynā
we found
Vocabulary
Root: لفو
عَلَيۡهِ
ʿalayhi
[on it]
Vocabulary
ءَابَآءَنَآۚ
ābāanā
our forefathers (following)
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
أَوَلَوۡ
awalaw
Even though
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
[were]
Vocabulary
Root: كون
ءَابَآؤُهُمۡ
ābāuhum
their forefathers
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
لَا
lā
(did) not
Vocabulary
يَعۡقِلُونَ
yaʿqilūna
understand
Vocabulary
Root: عقل
شَيۡـٔٗا
shayan
anything
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
وَلَا
walā
and not
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يَهۡتَدُونَ
yahtadūna
were they guided
Vocabulary
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.