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Al-Qasas 28:59

وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ مُهۡلِكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ يَبۡعَثَ فِيٓ أُمِّهَا رَسُولٗا يَتۡلُواْ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتِنَاۚ وَمَا كُنَّا مُهۡلِكِي ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا وَأَهۡلُهَا ظَٰلِمُونَ

Your Lord would never destroy a society until He had sent to its capital a messenger, reciting Our revelations to them. Nor would We ever destroy a society unless its people persisted in wrongdoing.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
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كَانَ
kāna
was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
رَبُّكَ
rabbuka
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
مُهۡلِكَ
muh'lika
(the) one to destroy
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
ٱلۡقُرَىٰ
l-qurā
the towns
Vocabulary
Root: قري
حَتَّىٰ
ḥattā
until
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يَبۡعَثَ
yabʿatha
He (had) sent
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Root: بعث
فِيٓ
fī
in
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أُمِّهَا
ummihā
their mother (town)
Vocabulary
Root: امم
رَسُولٗا
rasūlan
a Messenger
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Root: رسل
يَتۡلُواْ
yatlū
reciting
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Root: تلو
عَلَيۡهِمۡ
ʿalayhim
to them
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ءَايَٰتِنَاۚ
āyātinā
Our Verses
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Root: ايي
وَمَا
wamā
And not
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كُنَّا
kunnā
We would be
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Root: كون
مُهۡلِكِي
muh'likī
(the) one to destroy
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Root: هلك
ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ
l-qurā
the towns
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Root: قري
إِلَّا
illā
except
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وَأَهۡلُهَا
wa-ahluhā
while their people
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Root: اهل
ظَٰلِمُونَ
ẓālimūna
(were) wrongdoers
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم

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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.