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Az-Zukhruf 43:60

وَلَوۡ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلۡنَا مِنكُم مَّلَـٰٓئِكَةٗ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ يَخۡلُفُونَ

Had We willed, We could have easily replaced you ˹all˺ with angels, succeeding one another on earth.

Word by word

وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
نَشَآءُ
nashāu
We willed
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
لَجَعَلۡنَا
lajaʿalnā
surely We (could have) made
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
مِنكُم
minkum
among you
Vocabulary
مَّلَـٰٓئِكَةٗ
malāikatan
Angels
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
فِي
fī
in
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ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
يَخۡلُفُونَ
yakhlufūna
succeeding
Vocabulary
Root: خلف

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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.