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An-Nisa 4:117

إِن يَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ إِنَٰثٗا وَإِن يَدۡعُونَ إِلَّا شَيۡطَٰنٗا مَّرِيدٗا

Instead of Allah, they only invoke female gods and they ˹actually˺ invoke none but a rebellious Satan—

Word by word

إِن
in
Not
Vocabulary
يَدۡعُونَ
yadʿūna
they invoke
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
دُونِهِۦٓ
dūnihi
besides Him
Vocabulary
إِلَّآ
illā
but
Vocabulary
إِنَٰثٗا
ināthan
female (deities)
Vocabulary
Root: انث
وَإِن
wa-in
and not
Vocabulary
يَدۡعُونَ
yadʿūna
they invoke
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
شَيۡطَٰنٗا
shayṭānan
Shaitaan
Vocabulary
Root: شطن
مَّرِيدٗا
marīdan
rebellious
Vocabulary
Root: مرد

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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.