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Al-Ma'idah 5:25

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي لَآ أَمۡلِكُ إِلَّا نَفۡسِي وَأَخِيۖ فَٱفۡرُقۡ بَيۡنَنَا وَبَيۡنَ ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡفَٰسِقِينَ

Moses pleaded, “My Lord! I have no control over anyone except myself and my brother. So set us apart from the rebellious people.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
رَبِّ
rabbi
O my Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
إِنِّي
innī
Indeed, I
Vocabulary
لَآ
lā
(do) not
Vocabulary
أَمۡلِكُ
amliku
(have) power
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
نَفۡسِي
nafsī
(over) myself
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
وَأَخِيۖ
wa-akhī
and my brother
Vocabulary
Root: اخو
فَٱفۡرُقۡ
fa-uf'ruq
so (make a) separation
Vocabulary
Root: فرق
بَيۡنَنَا
baynanā
between us
Vocabulary
Root: بين
وَبَيۡنَ
wabayna
and between
Vocabulary
Root: بين
ٱلۡقَوۡمِ
l-qawmi
the people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
ٱلۡفَٰسِقِينَ
l-fāsiqīna
(the) defiantly disobedient
Vocabulary
Root: فسق

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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.