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An-Nisa 4:53

أَمۡ لَهُمۡ نَصِيبٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡمُلۡكِ فَإِذٗا لَّا يُؤۡتُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ نَقِيرًا

Do they have control over shares of the kingdom? If so, they would not have given anyone so much as the speck on a date stone.

Word by word

أَمۡ
am
Or
Vocabulary
لَهُمۡ
lahum
for them
Vocabulary
نَصِيبٞ
naṣībun
(is) a share
Vocabulary
Root: نصب
مِّنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡمُلۡكِ
l-mul'ki
the Kingdom
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
فَإِذٗا
fa-idhan
Then
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لَّا
lā
not would
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يُؤۡتُونَ
yu'tūna
they give
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
ٱلنَّاسَ
l-nāsa
the people
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
نَقِيرًا
naqīran
(even as much as the) speck on a date seed
Vocabulary
Root: نقر

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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.