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Al-Ma'idah 5:63

لَوۡلَا يَنۡهَىٰهُمُ ٱلرَّبَّـٰنِيُّونَ وَٱلۡأَحۡبَارُ عَن قَوۡلِهِمُ ٱلۡإِثۡمَ وَأَكۡلِهِمُ ٱلسُّحۡتَۚ لَبِئۡسَ مَا كَانُواْ يَصۡنَعُونَ

Why do their rabbis and scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and consuming what is unlawful? Evil indeed is their inaction!

Word by word

لَوۡلَا
lawlā
Why (do) not
Vocabulary
يَنۡهَىٰهُمُ
yanhāhumu
forbid them
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
ٱلرَّبَّـٰنِيُّونَ
l-rabāniyūna
the Rabbis
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
وَٱلۡأَحۡبَارُ
wal-aḥbāru
and the religious scholars
Vocabulary
Root: حبر
عَن
ʿan
from
Vocabulary
قَوۡلِهِمُ
qawlihimu
their saying
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلۡإِثۡمَ
l-ith'ma
the sinful
Vocabulary
Root: اثم
وَأَكۡلِهِمُ
wa-aklihimu
and their eating
Vocabulary
Root: اكل
ٱلسُّحۡتَۚ
l-suḥ'ta
(of) the forbidden
Vocabulary
Root: سحت
لَبِئۡسَ
labi'sa
Surely evil
Vocabulary
Root: باس
مَا
mā
(is) what
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they used to
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَصۡنَعُونَ
yaṣnaʿūna
do
Vocabulary
Root: صنع

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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.