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Al-Anbya 21:66

قَالَ أَفَتَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُكُمۡ شَيۡـٔٗا وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمۡ

He rebuked ˹them˺, “Do you then worship—instead of Allah—what can neither benefit nor harm you in any way?

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَفَتَعۡبُدُونَ
afataʿbudūna
Then do you worship
Vocabulary
Root: عبد
مِن
min
besides
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
besides
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
(does) not
Vocabulary
يَنفَعُكُمۡ
yanfaʿukum
benefit you
Vocabulary
Root: نفع
شَيۡـٔٗا
shayan
(in) anything
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يَضُرُّكُمۡ
yaḍurrukum
harms you
Vocabulary
Root: ضرر

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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.