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Al-'Ankabut 29:64

وَمَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنۡيَآ إِلَّا لَهۡوٞ وَلَعِبٞۚ وَإِنَّ ٱلدَّارَ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةَ لَهِيَ ٱلۡحَيَوَانُۚ لَوۡ كَانُواْ يَعۡلَمُونَ

This worldly life is no more than play and amusement. But the Hereafter is indeed the real life, if only they knew.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
هَٰذِهِ
hādhihi
(is) this
Vocabulary
ٱلۡحَيَوٰةُ
l-ḥayatu
life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
ٱلدُّنۡيَآ
l-dun'yā
(of) the world
Vocabulary
Root: دنو
إِلَّا
illā
but
Vocabulary
لَهۡوٞ
lahwun
amusement
Vocabulary
Root: لهو
وَلَعِبٞۚ
walaʿibun
and play
Vocabulary
Root: لعب
وَإِنَّ
wa-inna
And indeed
Vocabulary
ٱلدَّارَ
l-dāra
the Home
Vocabulary
Root: دور
ٱلۡأٓخِرَةَ
l-ākhirata
(of) the Hereafter
Vocabulary
لَهِيَ
lahiya
surely it
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ٱلۡحَيَوَانُۚ
l-ḥayawānu
(is) the life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
لَوۡ
law
if only
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَعۡلَمُونَ
yaʿlamūna
know
Vocabulary
Root: علم

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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.