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Al-Baqarah 2:205

وَإِذَا تَوَلَّىٰ سَعَىٰ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ لِيُفۡسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهۡلِكَ ٱلۡحَرۡثَ وَٱلنَّسۡلَۚ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلۡفَسَادَ

And when they leave ˹you˺, they strive throughout the land to spread mischief in it and destroy crops and cattle. Allah does not like mischief.

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
تَوَلَّىٰ
tawallā
he turns away
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
سَعَىٰ
saʿā
he strives
Vocabulary
Root: سعي
فِي
fī
in
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ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
لِيُفۡسِدَ
liyuf'sida
to spread corruption
Vocabulary
Root: فسد
فِيهَا
fīhā
[in it]
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وَيُهۡلِكَ
wayuh'lika
and destroys
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
ٱلۡحَرۡثَ
l-ḥartha
the crops
Vocabulary
Root: حرث
وَٱلنَّسۡلَۚ
wal-nasla
and progeny
Vocabulary
Root: نسل
وَٱللَّهُ
wal-lahu
And Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لَا
lā
(does) not
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يُحِبُّ
yuḥibbu
love
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Root: حبب
ٱلۡفَسَادَ
l-fasāda
[the] corruption
Vocabulary
Root: فسد

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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.