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Al-Baqarah 2:179

وَلَكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٞ يَـٰٓأُوْلِي ٱلۡأَلۡبَٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَتَّقُونَ

There is ˹security of˺ life for you in ˹the law of˺ retaliation, O  people of reason, so that you may become mindful ˹of Allah˺.

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وَلَكُمۡ
walakum
And for you
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فِي
fī
in
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ٱلۡقِصَاصِ
l-qiṣāṣi
the legal retribution
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Root: قصص
حَيَوٰةٞ
ḥayatun
(is) life
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Root: حيي
يَـٰٓأُوْلِي
yāulī
O men
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Root: اول
ٱلۡأَلۡبَٰبِ
l-albābi
(of) understanding
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Root: لبب
لَعَلَّكُمۡ
laʿallakum
So that you may
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تَتَّقُونَ
tattaqūna
(become) righteous
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Root: وقي

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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.