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Az-Zumar 39:43

أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُواْ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ شُفَعَآءَۚ قُلۡ أَوَلَوۡ كَانُواْ لَا يَمۡلِكُونَ شَيۡـٔٗا وَلَا يَعۡقِلُونَ

Or have they taken others besides Allah as intercessors? Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “˹Would they do so,˺ even though those ˹idols˺ have neither authority nor intelligence?”

Word by word

أَمِ
ami
Or
Vocabulary
ٱتَّخَذُواْ
ittakhadhū
have they taken
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِن
min
besides
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
besides
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
شُفَعَآءَۚ
shufaʿāa
intercessors
Vocabulary
Root: شفع
قُلۡ
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَوَلَوۡ
awalaw
Even though
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَمۡلِكُونَ
yamlikūna
possessing
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
شَيۡـٔٗا
shayan
anything
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يَعۡقِلُونَ
yaʿqilūna
they understand
Vocabulary
Root: عقل

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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.