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Taha 20:61

قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰ وَيۡلَكُمۡ لَا تَفۡتَرُواْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبٗا فَيُسۡحِتَكُم بِعَذَابٖۖ وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَنِ ٱفۡتَرَىٰ

Moses warned the magicians, “Woe to you! Do not fabricate a lie against Allah, or He will wipe you out with a torment. Whoever fabricates ˹lies˺ is bound to fail.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
Said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَهُم
lahum
to them
Vocabulary
مُّوسَىٰ
mūsā
Musa
Vocabulary
وَيۡلَكُمۡ
waylakum
Woe to you!
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
(Do) not
Vocabulary
تَفۡتَرُواْ
taftarū
invent
Vocabulary
Root: فري
عَلَى
ʿalā
against
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
كَذِبٗا
kadhiban
a lie
Vocabulary
Root: كذب
فَيُسۡحِتَكُم
fayus'ḥitakum
lest He will destroy you
Vocabulary
Root: سحت
بِعَذَابٖۖ
biʿadhābin
with a punishment
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
وَقَدۡ
waqad
And verily
Vocabulary
خَابَ
khāba
he failed
Vocabulary
Root: خيب
مَنِ
mani
who
Vocabulary
ٱفۡتَرَىٰ
if'tarā
invented
Vocabulary
Root: فري

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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.