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Al-Ahzab 33:15

وَلَقَدۡ كَانُواْ عَٰهَدُواْ ٱللَّهَ مِن قَبۡلُ لَا يُوَلُّونَ ٱلۡأَدۡبَٰرَۚ وَكَانَ عَهۡدُ ٱللَّهِ مَسۡـُٔولٗا

They had already pledged to Allah earlier never to turn their backs ˹in retreat˺. And a pledge to Allah must be answered for.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they had
Vocabulary
Root: كون
عَٰهَدُواْ
ʿāhadū
promised
Vocabulary
Root: عهد
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مِن
min
before
Vocabulary
قَبۡلُ
qablu
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يُوَلُّونَ
yuwallūna
they would turn
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
ٱلۡأَدۡبَٰرَۚ
l-adbāra
their backs
Vocabulary
Root: دبر
وَكَانَ
wakāna
And is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
عَهۡدُ
ʿahdu
(the) promise
Vocabulary
Root: عهد
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
(to) Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مَسۡـُٔولٗا
masūlan
to be questioned
Vocabulary
Root: سال

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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.