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Al-Baqarah 2:224

وَلَا تَجۡعَلُواْ ٱللَّهَ عُرۡضَةٗ لِّأَيۡمَٰنِكُمۡ أَن تَبَرُّواْ وَتَتَّقُواْ وَتُصۡلِحُواْ بَيۡنَ ٱلنَّاسِۚ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٞ

Do not use Allah’s Name in your oaths as an excuse for not doing good, not guarding against evil, or not making peace between people. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

Word by word

وَلَا
walā
And (do) not
Vocabulary
تَجۡعَلُواْ
tajʿalū
make
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allahs (name)
Vocabulary
Root: اله
عُرۡضَةٗ
ʿur'ḍatan
an excuse
Vocabulary
Root: عرض
لِّأَيۡمَٰنِكُمۡ
li-aymānikum
in your oaths
Vocabulary
Root: يمن
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
تَبَرُّواْ
tabarrū
you do good
Vocabulary
Root: برر
وَتَتَّقُواْ
watattaqū
and be righteous
Vocabulary
Root: وقي
وَتُصۡلِحُواْ
watuṣ'liḥū
and make peace
Vocabulary
Root: صلح
بَيۡنَ
bayna
between
Vocabulary
Root: بين
ٱلنَّاسِۚ
l-nāsi
[the] people
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
وَٱللَّهُ
wal-lahu
And Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
سَمِيعٌ
samīʿun
(is) All-Hearing
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
عَلِيمٞ
ʿalīmun
All-Knowing
Vocabulary
Root: علم

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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.