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Luqman 31:17

يَٰبُنَيَّ أَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأۡمُرۡ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَٱنۡهَ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنكَرِ وَٱصۡبِرۡ عَلَىٰ مَآ أَصَابَكَۖ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ مِنۡ عَزۡمِ ٱلۡأُمُورِ

“O my dear son! Establish prayer, encourage what is good and forbid what is evil, and endure patiently whatever befalls you. Surely this is a resolve to aspire to.

Word by word

يَٰبُنَيَّ
yābunayya
O my son
Vocabulary
Root: بني
أَقِمِ
aqimi
Establish
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ
l-ṣalata
the prayer
Vocabulary
Root: صلو
وَأۡمُرۡ
wamur
and enjoin
Vocabulary
Root: امر
بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ
bil-maʿrūfi
[with] the right
Vocabulary
Root: عرف
وَٱنۡهَ
wa-in'ha
and forbid
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
عَنِ
ʿani
from
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُنكَرِ
l-munkari
the wrong
Vocabulary
Root: نكر
وَٱصۡبِرۡ
wa-iṣ'bir
and be patient
Vocabulary
Root: صبر
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
over
Vocabulary
مَآ
mā
what
Vocabulary
أَصَابَكَۖ
aṣābaka
befalls you
Vocabulary
Root: صوب
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
Vocabulary
مِنۡ
min
(is) of
Vocabulary
عَزۡمِ
ʿazmi
the matters requiring determination
Vocabulary
Root: عزم
ٱلۡأُمُورِ
l-umūri
the matters requiring determination
Vocabulary
Root: امر

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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.