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Taha 20:129

وَلَوۡلَا كَلِمَةٞ سَبَقَتۡ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَكَانَ لِزَامٗا وَأَجَلٞ مُّسَمّٗى

Had it not been for a prior decree from your Lord ˹O Prophet˺ and a term already set, their ˹instant˺ doom would have been inevitable.

Word by word

وَلَوۡلَا
walawlā
And if not
Vocabulary
كَلِمَةٞ
kalimatun
(for) a Word
Vocabulary
Root: كلم
سَبَقَتۡ
sabaqat
(that) preceded
Vocabulary
Root: سبق
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
رَّبِّكَ
rabbika
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
لَكَانَ
lakāna
surely (would) have been
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِزَامٗا
lizāman
an obligation
Vocabulary
Root: لزم
وَأَجَلٞ
wa-ajalun
and a term
Vocabulary
Root: اجل
مُّسَمّٗى
musamman
determined
Vocabulary
Root: سمو

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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.