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Taha 20:96

قَالَ بَصُرۡتُ بِمَا لَمۡ يَبۡصُرُواْ بِهِۦ فَقَبَضۡتُ قَبۡضَةٗ مِّنۡ أَثَرِ ٱلرَّسُولِ فَنَبَذۡتُهَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ سَوَّلَتۡ لِي نَفۡسِي

He said, “I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful ˹of dust˺ from the hoof-prints of ˹the horse of˺ the messenger-angel ˹Gabriel˺ then cast it ˹on the moulded calf˺. This is what my lower-self tempted me into.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
بَصُرۡتُ
baṣur'tu
I perceived
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
بِمَا
bimā
what
Vocabulary
لَمۡ
lam
not
Vocabulary
يَبۡصُرُواْ
yabṣurū
they perceive
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
بِهِۦ
bihi
in it
Vocabulary
فَقَبَضۡتُ
faqabaḍtu
so I took
Vocabulary
Root: قبض
قَبۡضَةٗ
qabḍatan
a handful
Vocabulary
Root: قبض
مِّنۡ
min
from
Vocabulary
أَثَرِ
athari
(the) track
Vocabulary
Root: اثر
ٱلرَّسُولِ
l-rasūli
(of) the Messenger
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
فَنَبَذۡتُهَا
fanabadhtuhā
then threw it
Vocabulary
Root: نبذ
وَكَذَٰلِكَ
wakadhālika
and thus
Vocabulary
سَوَّلَتۡ
sawwalat
suggested
Vocabulary
Root: سول
لِي
lī
to me
Vocabulary
نَفۡسِي
nafsī
my soul
Vocabulary
Root: نفس

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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.