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Al-Ma'idah 5:76

قُلۡ أَتَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَمۡلِكُ لَكُمۡ ضَرّٗا وَلَا نَفۡعٗاۚ وَٱللَّهُ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “How can you worship besides Allah those who can neither harm nor benefit you? And Allah ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing.”

Word by word

قُلۡ
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَتَعۡبُدُونَ
ataʿbudūna
Do you worship
Vocabulary
Root: عبد
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
besides
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَمۡلِكُ
yamliku
has power
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
لَكُمۡ
lakum
to (cause) you
Vocabulary
ضَرّٗا
ḍarran
any harm
Vocabulary
Root: ضرر
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
نَفۡعٗاۚ
nafʿan
any benefit
Vocabulary
Root: نفع
وَٱللَّهُ
wal-lahu
while Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
هُوَ
huwa
He
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّمِيعُ
l-samīʿu
(is) the All-Hearing
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلۡعَلِيمُ
l-ʿalīmu
the All-Knowing
Vocabulary
Root: علم

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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.