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Al-Qamar 54:24

فَقَالُوٓاْ أَبَشَرٗا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدٗا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذٗا لَّفِي ضَلَٰلٖ وَسُعُرٍ

arguing, “How can we follow one ˹average˺ human being from among us? We would then truly be misguided and insane.

Word by word

فَقَالُوٓاْ
faqālū
And said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَبَشَرٗا
abasharan
Is (it) a human being
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
مِّنَّا
minnā
among us
Vocabulary
وَٰحِدٗا
wāḥidan
one
Vocabulary
Root: وحد
نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ
nattabiʿuhu
(that) we should follow him
Vocabulary
إِنَّآ
innā
Indeed we
Vocabulary
إِذٗا
idhan
then
Vocabulary
لَّفِي
lafī
(will be) surely in
Vocabulary
ضَلَٰلٖ
ḍalālin
error
Vocabulary
Root: ضلل
وَسُعُرٍ
wasuʿurin
and madness
Vocabulary
Root: سعر

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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.