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Ali 'Imran 3:168

ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ لِإِخۡوَٰنِهِمۡ وَقَعَدُواْ لَوۡ أَطَاعُونَا مَا قُتِلُواْۗ قُلۡ فَٱدۡرَءُواْ عَنۡ أَنفُسِكُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ

Those who sat at home, saying about their brothers, “Had they listened to us, they would not have been killed.” Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Try not to die if what you say is true!”

Word by word

ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
Those who
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قَالُواْ
qālū
said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِإِخۡوَٰنِهِمۡ
li-ikh'wānihim
about their brothers
Vocabulary
Root: اخو
وَقَعَدُواْ
waqaʿadū
while they sat
Vocabulary
Root: قعد
لَوۡ
law
If
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أَطَاعُونَا
aṭāʿūnā
they (had) obeyed us
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Root: طوع
مَا
mā
not
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قُتِلُواْۗ
qutilū
they would have been killed
Vocabulary
Root: قتل
قُلۡ
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
فَٱدۡرَءُواْ
fa-id'raū
Then avert
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Root: درا
عَنۡ
ʿan
from
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أَنفُسِكُمُ
anfusikumu
yourselves
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Root: نفس
ٱلۡمَوۡتَ
l-mawta
[the] death
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Root: موت
إِن
in
if
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كُنتُمۡ
kuntum
you are
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Root: كون
صَٰدِقِينَ
ṣādiqīna
truthful
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Root: صدق

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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.