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Sad 38:75

قَالَ يَـٰٓإِبۡلِيسُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَن تَسۡجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقۡتُ بِيَدَيَّۖ أَسۡتَكۡبَرۡتَ أَمۡ كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡعَالِينَ

Allah asked, “O Iblîs! What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My Own Hands? Did you ˹just˺ become proud? Or have you always been arrogant?”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَـٰٓإِبۡلِيسُ
yāib'līsu
O Iblis!
Vocabulary
مَا
mā
What
Vocabulary
مَنَعَكَ
manaʿaka
prevented you
Vocabulary
Root: منع
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
تَسۡجُدَ
tasjuda
you (should) prostrate
Vocabulary
Root: سجد
لِمَا
limā
to (one) whom
Vocabulary
خَلَقۡتُ
khalaqtu
I created
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
بِيَدَيَّۖ
biyadayya
with My Hands
Vocabulary
Root: يدي
أَسۡتَكۡبَرۡتَ
astakbarta
Are you arrogant
Vocabulary
Root: كبر
أَمۡ
am
or
Vocabulary
كُنتَ
kunta
are you
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡعَالِينَ
l-ʿālīna
the exalted ones
Vocabulary
Root: علو

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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.