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Al-Hajj 22:12

يَدۡعُواْ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُۥ وَمَا لَا يَنفَعُهُۥۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلضَّلَٰلُ ٱلۡبَعِيدُ

They call besides Allah what can neither harm nor benefit them. That is ˹truly˺ the farthest one can stray.

Word by word

يَدۡعُواْ
yadʿū
He calls
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
مِن
min
besides
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
besides
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَضُرُّهُۥ
yaḍurruhu
harms him
Vocabulary
وَمَا
wamā
and what
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَنفَعُهُۥۚ
yanfaʿuhu
benefits him
Vocabulary
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
That
Vocabulary
هُوَ
huwa
[it]
Vocabulary
ٱلضَّلَٰلُ
l-ḍalālu
(is) the straying
Vocabulary
Root: ضلل
ٱلۡبَعِيدُ
l-baʿīdu
far away
Vocabulary
Root: بعد

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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.