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Taha 20:116

وَإِذۡ قُلۡنَا لِلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ ٱسۡجُدُواْ لِأٓدَمَ فَسَجَدُوٓاْ إِلَّآ إِبۡلِيسَ أَبَىٰ

And ˹remember˺ when We said to the angels, “Prostrate before Adam,” so they all did—but not Iblîs, who refused ˹arrogantly˺.

Word by word

وَإِذۡ
wa-idh
And when
Vocabulary
قُلۡنَا
qul'nā
We said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ
lil'malāikati
to the Angels
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
ٱسۡجُدُواْ
us'judū
Prostrate
Vocabulary
Root: سجد
لِأٓدَمَ
liādama
to Adam
Vocabulary
فَسَجَدُوٓاْ
fasajadū
then they prostrated
Vocabulary
Root: سجد
إِلَّآ
illā
except
Vocabulary
إِبۡلِيسَ
ib'līsa
Iblis
Vocabulary
أَبَىٰ
abā
he refused
Vocabulary
Root: ابي

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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.