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Fussilat 41:5

وَقَالُواْ قُلُوبُنَا فِيٓ أَكِنَّةٖ مِّمَّا تَدۡعُونَآ إِلَيۡهِ وَفِيٓ ءَاذَانِنَا وَقۡرٞ وَمِنۢ بَيۡنِنَا وَبَيۡنِكَ حِجَابٞ فَٱعۡمَلۡ إِنَّنَا عَٰمِلُونَ

They say, “Our hearts are veiled against what you are calling us to, there is deafness in our ears, and there is a barrier between us and you. So do ˹whatever you want˺ and so shall we!”

Word by word

وَقَالُواْ
waqālū
And they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
قُلُوبُنَا
qulūbunā
Our hearts
Vocabulary
Root: قلب
فِيٓ
fī
(are) in
Vocabulary
أَكِنَّةٖ
akinnatin
coverings
Vocabulary
Root: كنن
مِّمَّا
mimmā
from what
Vocabulary
تَدۡعُونَآ
tadʿūnā
you call us
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِلَيۡهِ
ilayhi
to it
Vocabulary
وَفِيٓ
wafī
and in
Vocabulary
ءَاذَانِنَا
ādhāninā
our ears
Vocabulary
Root: اذن
وَقۡرٞ
waqrun
(is) deafness
Vocabulary
Root: وقر
وَمِنۢ
wamin
and between us
Vocabulary
بَيۡنِنَا
bayninā
and between us
Vocabulary
Root: بين
وَبَيۡنِكَ
wabaynika
and between you
Vocabulary
Root: بين
حِجَابٞ
ḥijābun
(is) a screen
Vocabulary
Root: حجب
فَٱعۡمَلۡ
fa-iʿ'mal
So work
Vocabulary
Root: عمل
إِنَّنَا
innanā
indeed, we
Vocabulary
عَٰمِلُونَ
ʿāmilūna
(are) working
Vocabulary
Root: عمل

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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.