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Al-Anbya 21:39

لَوۡ يَعۡلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمۡ وَلَا هُمۡ يُنصَرُونَ

If only the disbelievers knew that a time will come when they will not be able to keep the Fire off their faces or backs, nor will they be helped.

Word by word

لَوۡ
law
If
Vocabulary
يَعۡلَمُ
yaʿlamu
knew
Vocabulary
Root: علم
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those who
Vocabulary
كَفَرُواْ
kafarū
disbelieved
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
حِينَ
ḥīna
(the) time
Vocabulary
Root: حين
لَا
lā
(when) not
Vocabulary
يَكُفُّونَ
yakuffūna
they will avert
Vocabulary
Root: كفف
عَن
ʿan
from
Vocabulary
وُجُوهِهِمُ
wujūhihimu
their faces
Vocabulary
Root: وجه
ٱلنَّارَ
l-nāra
the Fire
Vocabulary
Root: نور
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
عَن
ʿan
from
Vocabulary
ظُهُورِهِمۡ
ẓuhūrihim
their backs
Vocabulary
Root: ظهر
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
هُمۡ
hum
they
Vocabulary
يُنصَرُونَ
yunṣarūna
will be helped!
Vocabulary
Root: نصر

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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.