Aslam

All passages Sign in to save

Az-Zukhruf 43:56

فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ سَلَفٗا وَمَثَلٗا لِّلۡأٓخِرِينَ

And We made them an example and a lesson for those after them.

Word by word

فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ
fajaʿalnāhum
And We made them
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
سَلَفٗا
salafan
a precedent
Vocabulary
Root: سلف
وَمَثَلٗا
wamathalan
and an example
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
لِّلۡأٓخِرِينَ
lil'ākhirīna
for the later (generations)
Vocabulary

Read the full verse and commentary →

About the sources

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.