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An-Nur 24:12

لَّوۡلَآ إِذۡ سَمِعۡتُمُوهُ ظَنَّ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنَٰتُ بِأَنفُسِهِمۡ خَيۡرٗا وَقَالُواْ هَٰذَآ إِفۡكٞ مُّبِينٞ

If only the believing men and women had thought well of one another, when you heard this ˹rumour˺, and said, “This is clearly ˹an outrageous˺ slander!”

Word by word

لَّوۡلَآ
lawlā
Why not
Vocabulary
إِذۡ
idh
when
Vocabulary
سَمِعۡتُمُوهُ
samiʿ'tumūhu
you heard it
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ظَنَّ
ẓanna
think
Vocabulary
Root: ظنن
ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ
l-mu'minūna
the believing men
Vocabulary
Root: امن
وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنَٰتُ
wal-mu'minātu
and the believing women
Vocabulary
Root: امن
بِأَنفُسِهِمۡ
bi-anfusihim
good of themselves
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
خَيۡرٗا
khayran
good of themselves
Vocabulary
Root: خير
وَقَالُواْ
waqālū
and say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
هَٰذَآ
hādhā
This
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إِفۡكٞ
if'kun
(is) a lie
Vocabulary
Root: افك
مُّبِينٞ
mubīnun
clear
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Root: بين

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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.