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Al-Ma'idah 5:58

وَإِذَا نَادَيۡتُمۡ إِلَى ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ ٱتَّخَذُوهَا هُزُوٗا وَلَعِبٗاۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمۡ قَوۡمٞ لَّا يَعۡقِلُونَ

When you call to prayer, they mock it in amusement. This is because they are a people without understanding.

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وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
نَادَيۡتُمۡ
nādaytum
you make a call
Vocabulary
Root: ندو
إِلَى
ilā
for
Vocabulary
ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ
l-ṣalati
the prayer
Vocabulary
Root: صلو
ٱتَّخَذُوهَا
ittakhadhūhā
they take it
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
هُزُوٗا
huzuwan
(in) ridicule
Vocabulary
Root: هزا
وَلَعِبٗاۚ
walaʿiban
and fun
Vocabulary
Root: لعب
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
That
Vocabulary
بِأَنَّهُمۡ
bi-annahum
(is) because they
Vocabulary
قَوۡمٞ
qawmun
(are) a people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
لَّا
lā
(who do) not
Vocabulary
يَعۡقِلُونَ
yaʿqilūna
understand
Vocabulary
Root: عقل

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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.