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Fatir 35:42

وَأَقۡسَمُواْ بِٱللَّهِ جَهۡدَ أَيۡمَٰنِهِمۡ لَئِن جَآءَهُمۡ نَذِيرٞ لَّيَكُونُنَّ أَهۡدَىٰ مِنۡ إِحۡدَى ٱلۡأُمَمِۖ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمۡ نَذِيرٞ مَّا زَادَهُمۡ إِلَّا نُفُورًا

They swore by Allah their most solemn oaths that if a warner were to come to them, they would certainly be better guided than any other community. Yet when a warner did come to them, it only drove them farther away—

Word by word

وَأَقۡسَمُواْ
wa-aqsamū
And they swore
Vocabulary
Root: قسم
بِٱللَّهِ
bil-lahi
by Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
جَهۡدَ
jahda
(the) strongest
Vocabulary
Root: جهد
أَيۡمَٰنِهِمۡ
aymānihim
(of) their oaths
Vocabulary
Root: يمن
لَئِن
la-in
that if
Vocabulary
جَآءَهُمۡ
jāahum
came to them
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
نَذِيرٞ
nadhīrun
a warner
Vocabulary
Root: نذر
لَّيَكُونُنَّ
layakūnunna
surely they would be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
أَهۡدَىٰ
ahdā
more guided
Vocabulary
Root: هدي
مِنۡ
min
than
Vocabulary
إِحۡدَى
iḥ'dā
any
Vocabulary
Root: احد
ٱلۡأُمَمِۖ
l-umami
(of) the nations
Vocabulary
Root: امم
فَلَمَّا
falammā
But when
Vocabulary
جَآءَهُمۡ
jāahum
came to them
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
نَذِيرٞ
nadhīrun
a warner
Vocabulary
Root: نذر
مَّا
mā
not
Vocabulary
زَادَهُمۡ
zādahum
it increased them
Vocabulary
Root: زيد
إِلَّا
illā
but
Vocabulary
نُفُورًا
nufūran
(in) aversion
Vocabulary
Root: نفر

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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.