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As-Saffat 37:11

فَٱسۡتَفۡتِهِمۡ أَهُمۡ أَشَدُّ خَلۡقًا أَم مَّنۡ خَلَقۡنَآۚ إِنَّا خَلَقۡنَٰهُم مِّن طِينٖ لَّازِبِۭ

So ask them ˹O Prophet˺, which is harder to create: them or other marvels of Our creation? Indeed, We created them from a sticky clay.

Word by word

فَٱسۡتَفۡتِهِمۡ
fa-is'taftihim
Then ask them
Vocabulary
Root: فتي
أَهُمۡ
ahum
Are they
Vocabulary
أَشَدُّ
ashaddu
a stronger
Vocabulary
Root: شدد
خَلۡقًا
khalqan
creation
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
أَم
am
or
Vocabulary
مَّنۡ
man
(those) whom
Vocabulary
خَلَقۡنَآۚ
khalaqnā
We have created
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed We
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خَلَقۡنَٰهُم
khalaqnāhum
created them
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
مِّن
min
from
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طِينٖ
ṭīnin
a clay
Vocabulary
Root: طين
لَّازِبِۭ
lāzibin
sticky
Vocabulary
Root: لزب

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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.