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Al-'Ankabut 29:48

وَمَا كُنتَ تَتۡلُواْ مِن قَبۡلِهِۦ مِن كِتَٰبٖ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُۥ بِيَمِينِكَۖ إِذٗا لَّٱرۡتَابَ ٱلۡمُبۡطِلُونَ

You ˹O Prophet˺ could not read any writing ˹even˺ before this ˹revelation˺, nor could you write at all. Otherwise, the people of falsehood would have been suspicious.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
كُنتَ
kunta
(did) you
Vocabulary
Root: كون
تَتۡلُواْ
tatlū
recite
Vocabulary
Root: تلو
مِن
min
before it
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قَبۡلِهِۦ
qablihi
before it
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مِن
min
any
Vocabulary
كِتَٰبٖ
kitābin
Book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
تَخُطُّهُۥ
takhuṭṭuhu
(did) you write it
Vocabulary
بِيَمِينِكَۖ
biyamīnika
with your right hand
Vocabulary
Root: يمن
إِذٗا
idhan
in that case
Vocabulary
لَّٱرۡتَابَ
la-ir'tāba
surely (would) have doubted
Vocabulary
Root: ريب
ٱلۡمُبۡطِلُونَ
l-mub'ṭilūna
the falsifiers
Vocabulary
Root: بطل

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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.