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Ali 'Imran 3:117

مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِي هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٖ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتۡ حَرۡثَ قَوۡمٖ ظَلَمُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ فَأَهۡلَكَتۡهُۚ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَلَٰكِنۡ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ

The good they do in this worldly life is like the harvest of an evil people struck by a bitter wind, destroying it ˹completely˺. Allah never wronged them, but they wronged themselves.

Word by word

مَثَلُ
mathalu
Example
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
مَا
mā
(of) what
Vocabulary
يُنفِقُونَ
yunfiqūna
they spend
Vocabulary
Root: نفق
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
هَٰذِهِ
hādhihi
this
Vocabulary
ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ
l-ḥayati
[the] life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
ٱلدُّنۡيَا
l-dun'yā
(of) the world
Vocabulary
Root: دنو
كَمَثَلِ
kamathali
(is) like (the) example
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
رِيحٖ
rīḥin
(of) a wind
Vocabulary
Root: روح
فِيهَا
fīhā
in it
Vocabulary
صِرٌّ
ṣirrun
(is) frost
Vocabulary
Root: صرر
أَصَابَتۡ
aṣābat
it struck
Vocabulary
Root: صوب
حَرۡثَ
ḥartha
(the) harvest
Vocabulary
Root: حرث
قَوۡمٖ
qawmin
(of) a people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
ظَلَمُوٓاْ
ẓalamū
who wronged
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم
أَنفُسَهُمۡ
anfusahum
themselves
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
فَأَهۡلَكَتۡهُۚ
fa-ahlakathu
then destroyed it
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
ظَلَمَهُمُ
ẓalamahumu
(has) wronged them
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
وَلَٰكِنۡ
walākin
[and] but
Vocabulary
أَنفُسَهُمۡ
anfusahum
themselves
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
يَظۡلِمُونَ
yaẓlimūna
they wronged
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.