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Ya-Sin 36:66

وَلَوۡ نَشَآءُ لَطَمَسۡنَا عَلَىٰٓ أَعۡيُنِهِمۡ فَٱسۡتَبَقُواْ ٱلصِّرَٰطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبۡصِرُونَ

Had We willed, We could have easily blinded their eyes, so they would struggle to find their way. How then could they see?

Word by word

وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
نَشَآءُ
nashāu
We willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
لَطَمَسۡنَا
laṭamasnā
We (would have) surely obliterated
Vocabulary
Root: طمس
عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
[over]
Vocabulary
أَعۡيُنِهِمۡ
aʿyunihim
their eyes
Vocabulary
Root: عين
فَٱسۡتَبَقُواْ
fa-is'tabaqū
then they (would) race
Vocabulary
Root: سبق
ٱلصِّرَٰطَ
l-ṣirāṭa
(to find) the path
Vocabulary
Root: صرط
فَأَنَّىٰ
fa-annā
then how
Vocabulary
Root: اني
يُبۡصِرُونَ
yub'ṣirūna
(could) they see
Vocabulary
Root: بصر

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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.