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An-Naml 27:46

قَالَ يَٰقَوۡمِ لِمَ تَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَ بِٱلسَّيِّئَةِ قَبۡلَ ٱلۡحَسَنَةِۖ لَوۡلَا تَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ ٱللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تُرۡحَمُونَ

He urged ˹the disbelieving group˺, “O my people! Why do you ˹seek to˺ hasten the torment rather than grace? If only you sought Allah’s forgiveness so you may be shown mercy!”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَٰقَوۡمِ
yāqawmi
O my people!
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
لِمَ
lima
Why
Vocabulary
تَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَ
tastaʿjilūna
(do) you seek to hasten
Vocabulary
Root: عجل
بِٱلسَّيِّئَةِ
bil-sayi-ati
the evil
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
قَبۡلَ
qabla
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
ٱلۡحَسَنَةِۖ
l-ḥasanati
the good
Vocabulary
Root: حسن
لَوۡلَا
lawlā
Why not
Vocabulary
تَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ
tastaghfirūna
you ask forgiveness
Vocabulary
Root: غفر
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
(of) Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لَعَلَّكُمۡ
laʿallakum
so that you may
Vocabulary
تُرۡحَمُونَ
tur'ḥamūna
receive mercy
Vocabulary
Root: رحم

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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.