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An-Nisa 4:22

وَلَا تَنكِحُواْ مَا نَكَحَ ءَابَآؤُكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدۡ سَلَفَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فَٰحِشَةٗ وَمَقۡتٗا وَسَآءَ سَبِيلًا

Do not marry former wives of your fathers—except what was done previously. It was indeed a shameful, despicable, and evil practice.

Word by word

وَلَا
walā
And (do) not
Vocabulary
تَنكِحُواْ
tankiḥū
marry
Vocabulary
Root: نكح
مَا
mā
whom
Vocabulary
نَكَحَ
nakaḥa
married
Vocabulary
Root: نكح
ءَابَآؤُكُم
ābāukum
your fathers
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
مِّنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلنِّسَآءِ
l-nisāi
the women
Vocabulary
Root: نسو
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
قَدۡ
qad
has
Vocabulary
سَلَفَۚ
salafa
passed before
Vocabulary
Root: سلف
إِنَّهُۥ
innahu
indeed it
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
فَٰحِشَةٗ
fāḥishatan
an immorality
Vocabulary
Root: فحش
وَمَقۡتٗا
wamaqtan
and hateful
Vocabulary
Root: مقت
وَسَآءَ
wasāa
and (an) evil
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
سَبِيلًا
sabīlan
way
Vocabulary
Root: سبل

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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.