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Az-Zukhruf 43:22

بَلۡ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّا وَجَدۡنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا عَلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٖ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِم مُّهۡتَدُونَ

In fact, they say, “We found our forefathers following a ˹particular˺ way, and we are following in their footsteps.”

Word by word

بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed we
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وَجَدۡنَآ
wajadnā
[we] found
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
ءَابَآءَنَا
ābāanā
our forefathers
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
upon
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أُمَّةٖ
ummatin
a religion
Vocabulary
Root: امم
وَإِنَّا
wa-innā
and indeed we
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عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
on
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ءَاثَٰرِهِم
āthārihim
their footsteps
Vocabulary
Root: اثر
مُّهۡتَدُونَ
muh'tadūna
(are) guided
Vocabulary
Root: هدي

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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.