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Az-Zukhruf 43:38

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَنَا قَالَ يَٰلَيۡتَ بَيۡنِي وَبَيۡنَكَ بُعۡدَ ٱلۡمَشۡرِقَيۡنِ فَبِئۡسَ ٱلۡقَرِينُ

But when such a person comes to Us, one will say ˹to their associate˺, “I wish you were as distant from me as the east is from the west! What an evil associate ˹you were˺!”

Word by word

حَتَّىٰٓ
ḥattā
Until
Vocabulary
إِذَا
idhā
when
Vocabulary
جَآءَنَا
jāanā
he comes to Us
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
قَالَ
qāla
he says
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَٰلَيۡتَ
yālayta
O would that
Vocabulary
بَيۡنِي
baynī
between me
Vocabulary
Root: بين
وَبَيۡنَكَ
wabaynaka
and between you
Vocabulary
Root: بين
بُعۡدَ
buʿ'da
(were the) distance
Vocabulary
Root: بعد
ٱلۡمَشۡرِقَيۡنِ
l-mashriqayni
(of) the East and the West
Vocabulary
Root: شرق
فَبِئۡسَ
fabi'sa
How wretched is
Vocabulary
Root: باس
ٱلۡقَرِينُ
l-qarīnu
the companion!
Vocabulary
Root: قرن

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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.