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An-Nisa 4:120

يَعِدُهُمۡ وَيُمَنِّيهِمۡۖ وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا

Satan only makes them ˹false˺ promises and deludes them with ˹empty˺ hopes. Truly Satan promises them nothing but delusion.

Word by word

يَعِدُهُمۡ
yaʿiduhum
He promises them
Vocabulary
Root: وعد
وَيُمَنِّيهِمۡۖ
wayumannīhim
and arouses desires in them
Vocabulary
Root: مني
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
يَعِدُهُمُ
yaʿiduhumu
promises them
Vocabulary
Root: وعد
ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ
l-shayṭānu
the Shaitaan
Vocabulary
Root: شطن
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
غُرُورًا
ghurūran
deception
Vocabulary
Root: غرر

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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.