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Ash-Shuraa 42:9

أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُواْ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ أَوۡلِيَآءَۖ فَٱللَّهُ هُوَ ٱلۡوَلِيُّ وَهُوَ يُحۡيِ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ قَدِيرٞ

How can they take protectors besides Him? Allah alone is the Protector. He ˹alone˺ gives life to the dead. And He ˹alone˺ is Most Capable of everything.

Word by word

أَمِ
ami
Or
Vocabulary
ٱتَّخَذُواْ
ittakhadhū
have they taken
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِن
min
besides Him
Vocabulary
دُونِهِۦٓ
dūnihi
besides Him
Vocabulary
أَوۡلِيَآءَۖ
awliyāa
protectors
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
فَٱللَّهُ
fal-lahu
But Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
هُوَ
huwa
He
Vocabulary
ٱلۡوَلِيُّ
l-waliyu
(is) the Protector
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
and He
Vocabulary
يُحۡيِ
yuḥ'yī
gives life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ
l-mawtā
(to) the dead
Vocabulary
Root: موت
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
And He
Vocabulary
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
(is) on
Vocabulary
كُلِّ
kulli
every
Vocabulary
Root: كلل
شَيۡءٖ
shayin
thing
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
قَدِيرٞ
qadīrun
All-Powerful
Vocabulary
Root: قدر

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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.