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Sad 38:63

أَتَّخَذۡنَٰهُمۡ سِخۡرِيًّا أَمۡ زَاغَتۡ عَنۡهُمُ ٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرُ

Were we wrong in mocking them ˹in the world˺? Or do our eyes ˹just˺ fail to see them ˹in the Fire˺?”

Word by word

أَتَّخَذۡنَٰهُمۡ
attakhadhnāhum
Did we take them
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
سِخۡرِيًّا
sikh'riyyan
(in) ridicule
Vocabulary
Root: سخر
أَمۡ
am
or
Vocabulary
زَاغَتۡ
zāghat
has turned away
Vocabulary
Root: زيغ
عَنۡهُمُ
ʿanhumu
from them
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرُ
l-abṣāru
the vision
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.