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Al-Mu'minun 23:96

ٱدۡفَعۡ بِٱلَّتِي هِيَ أَحۡسَنُ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَۚ نَحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا يَصِفُونَ

Respond to evil with what is best. We know well what they claim.

Word by word

ٱدۡفَعۡ
id'faʿ
Repel
Vocabulary
Root: دفع
بِٱلَّتِي
bi-allatī
by that
Vocabulary
هِيَ
hiya
which
Vocabulary
أَحۡسَنُ
aḥsanu
(is) best
Vocabulary
Root: حسن
ٱلسَّيِّئَةَۚ
l-sayi-ata
the evil
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
نَحۡنُ
naḥnu
We
Vocabulary
أَعۡلَمُ
aʿlamu
know best
Vocabulary
Root: علم
بِمَا
bimā
of what
Vocabulary
يَصِفُونَ
yaṣifūna
they attribute
Vocabulary
Root: وصف

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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.