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Al-Furqan 25:45

أَلَمۡ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيۡفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوۡ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنٗا ثُمَّ جَعَلۡنَا ٱلشَّمۡسَ عَلَيۡهِ دَلِيلٗا

Have you not seen how your Lord extends the shade—He could have simply made it ˹remain˺ still if He so willed—then We make the sun its guide,

Word by word

أَلَمۡ
alam
Do you not
Vocabulary
تَرَ
tara
see
Vocabulary
Root: راي
إِلَىٰ
ilā
[to]
Vocabulary
رَبِّكَ
rabbika
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
كَيۡفَ
kayfa
how
Vocabulary
Root: كيف
مَدَّ
madda
He extends
Vocabulary
Root: مدد
ٱلظِّلَّ
l-ẓila
the shadow
Vocabulary
Root: ظلل
وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
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شَآءَ
shāa
He willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
لَجَعَلَهُۥ
lajaʿalahu
surely He (could) have made it
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سَاكِنٗا
sākinan
stationary
Vocabulary
Root: سكن
ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
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جَعَلۡنَا
jaʿalnā
We made
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
ٱلشَّمۡسَ
l-shamsa
the sun
Vocabulary
Root: شمس
عَلَيۡهِ
ʿalayhi
for it
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دَلِيلٗا
dalīlan
an indication
Vocabulary
Root: دلل

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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.