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Al-Mu'minun 23:24

فَقَالَ ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن قَوۡمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٞ مِّثۡلُكُمۡ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتَفَضَّلَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ وَلَوۡ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَنزَلَ مَلَـٰٓئِكَةٗ مَّا سَمِعۡنَا بِهَٰذَا فِيٓ ءَابَآئِنَا ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

But the disbelieving chiefs of his people said ˹to the masses˺, “This is only a human like you, who wants to be superior to you. Had Allah willed, He could have easily sent down angels ˹instead˺. We have never heard of this in ˹the history of˺ our forefathers.

Word by word

فَقَالَ
faqāla
But said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ
l-mala-u
the chiefs
Vocabulary
Root: ملا
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
(of) those who
Vocabulary
كَفَرُواْ
kafarū
disbelieved
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
مِن
min
among
Vocabulary
قَوۡمِهِۦ
qawmihi
his people
Vocabulary
مَا
mā
This is not
Vocabulary
هَٰذَآ
hādhā
This is not
Vocabulary
إِلَّا
illā
but
Vocabulary
بَشَرٞ
basharun
a man
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
مِّثۡلُكُمۡ
mith'lukum
like you
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
يُرِيدُ
yurīdu
he wishes
Vocabulary
Root: رود
أَن
an
to
Vocabulary
يَتَفَضَّلَ
yatafaḍḍala
assert (his) superiority
Vocabulary
Root: فضل
عَلَيۡكُمۡ
ʿalaykum
over you
Vocabulary
وَلَوۡ
walaw
and if
Vocabulary
شَآءَ
shāa
Allah had willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah had willed
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لَأَنزَلَ
la-anzala
surely He (would have) sent down
Vocabulary
Root: نزل
مَلَـٰٓئِكَةٗ
malāikatan
Angels
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
مَّا
mā
Not
Vocabulary
سَمِعۡنَا
samiʿ'nā
we heard
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
بِهَٰذَا
bihādhā
of this
Vocabulary
فِيٓ
fī
from
Vocabulary
ءَابَآئِنَا
ābāinā
our forefathers
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
our forefathers
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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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.