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Ali 'Imran 3:110

كُنتُمۡ خَيۡرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخۡرِجَتۡ لِلنَّاسِ تَأۡمُرُونَ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَتَنۡهَوۡنَ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنكَرِ وَتُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِۗ وَلَوۡ ءَامَنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ لَكَانَ خَيۡرٗا لَّهُمۚ مِّنۡهُمُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ وَأَكۡثَرُهُمُ ٱلۡفَٰسِقُونَ

You are the best community ever raised for humanity—you encourage good, forbid evil, and believe in Allah. Had the People of the Book believed, it would have been better for them. Some of them are faithful, but most are rebellious.

Word by word

كُنتُمۡ
kuntum
You are
Vocabulary
Root: كون
خَيۡرَ
khayra
(the) best
Vocabulary
Root: خير
أُمَّةٍ
ummatin
(of) people
Vocabulary
Root: امم
أُخۡرِجَتۡ
ukh'rijat
raised
Vocabulary
Root: خرج
لِلنَّاسِ
lilnnāsi
for the mankind
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
تَأۡمُرُونَ
tamurūna
enjoining
Vocabulary
Root: امر
بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ
bil-maʿrūfi
the right
Vocabulary
Root: عرف
وَتَنۡهَوۡنَ
watanhawna
and forbidding
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
عَنِ
ʿani
[from]
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُنكَرِ
l-munkari
the wrong
Vocabulary
Root: نكر
وَتُؤۡمِنُونَ
watu'minūna
and believing
Vocabulary
Root: امن
بِٱللَّهِۗ
bil-lahi
in Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
ءَامَنَ
āmana
believed
Vocabulary
Root: امن
أَهۡلُ
ahlu
(the) People
Vocabulary
Root: اهل
ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ
l-kitābi
(of) the Book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
لَكَانَ
lakāna
surely would have been
Vocabulary
Root: كون
خَيۡرٗا
khayran
good
Vocabulary
Root: خير
لَّهُمۚ
lahum
for them
Vocabulary
مِّنۡهُمُ
min'humu
Among them
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ
l-mu'minūna
(are) the believers
Vocabulary
Root: امن
وَأَكۡثَرُهُمُ
wa-aktharuhumu
but most of them
Vocabulary
Root: كثر
ٱلۡفَٰسِقُونَ
l-fāsiqūna
(are) defiantly disobedient
Vocabulary
Root: فسق

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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.