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Ali 'Imran 3:143

وَلَقَدۡ كُنتُمۡ تَمَنَّوۡنَ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ مِن قَبۡلِ أَن تَلۡقَوۡهُ فَقَدۡ رَأَيۡتُمُوهُ وَأَنتُمۡ تَنظُرُونَ

You certainly wished ˹for the opportunity˺ for martyrdom before encountering it, now you have seen it with your own eyes.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
كُنتُمۡ
kuntum
you used to
Vocabulary
Root: كون
تَمَنَّوۡنَ
tamannawna
wish
Vocabulary
Root: مني
ٱلۡمَوۡتَ
l-mawta
(for) death
Vocabulary
Root: موت
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
قَبۡلِ
qabli
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
أَن
an
[that]
Vocabulary
تَلۡقَوۡهُ
talqawhu
you met it
Vocabulary
Root: لقي
فَقَدۡ
faqad
then indeed
Vocabulary
رَأَيۡتُمُوهُ
ra-aytumūhu
you have seen it
Vocabulary
Root: راي
وَأَنتُمۡ
wa-antum
while you (were)
Vocabulary
تَنظُرُونَ
tanẓurūna
looking on
Vocabulary
Root: نظر

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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.