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Qaf 50:16

وَلَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعۡلَمُ مَا تُوَسۡوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفۡسُهُۥۖ وَنَحۡنُ أَقۡرَبُ إِلَيۡهِ مِنۡ حَبۡلِ ٱلۡوَرِيدِ

Indeed, ˹it is˺ We ˹Who˺ created humankind and ˹fully˺ know what their souls whisper to them, and We are closer to them than ˹their˺ jugular vein.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
خَلَقۡنَا
khalaqnā
We created
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ
l-insāna
man
Vocabulary
Root: انس
وَنَعۡلَمُ
wanaʿlamu
and We know
Vocabulary
Root: علم
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
تُوَسۡوِسُ
tuwaswisu
whispers
Vocabulary
Root: وسوس
بِهِۦ
bihi
to him
Vocabulary
نَفۡسُهُۥۖ
nafsuhu
his soul
Vocabulary
وَنَحۡنُ
wanaḥnu
and We
Vocabulary
أَقۡرَبُ
aqrabu
(are) nearer
Vocabulary
Root: قرب
إِلَيۡهِ
ilayhi
to him
Vocabulary
مِنۡ
min
than
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حَبۡلِ
ḥabli
(his) jugular vein
Vocabulary
Root: حبل
ٱلۡوَرِيدِ
l-warīdi
(his) jugular vein
Vocabulary
Root: ورد

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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.