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Al-Baqarah 2:44

۞أَتَأۡمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلۡبِرِّ وَتَنسَوۡنَ أَنفُسَكُمۡ وَأَنتُمۡ تَتۡلُونَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَۚ أَفَلَا تَعۡقِلُونَ

Do you preach righteousness and fail to practice it yourselves, although you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?

Word by word

۞أَتَأۡمُرُونَ
atamurūna
Do you order
Vocabulary
Root: امر
ٱلنَّاسَ
l-nāsa
[the] people
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
بِٱلۡبِرِّ
bil-biri
[the] righteousness
Vocabulary
Root: برر
وَتَنسَوۡنَ
watansawna
and you forget
Vocabulary
Root: نسي
أَنفُسَكُمۡ
anfusakum
yourselves
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
وَأَنتُمۡ
wa-antum
while you
Vocabulary
تَتۡلُونَ
tatlūna
[you] recite
Vocabulary
Root: تلو
ٱلۡكِتَٰبَۚ
l-kitāba
the Book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
أَفَلَا
afalā
Then will not
Vocabulary
تَعۡقِلُونَ
taʿqilūna
you use reason
Vocabulary
Root: عقل

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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.