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Al-An'am 6:131

ذَٰلِكَ أَن لَّمۡ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهۡلِكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ بِظُلۡمٖ وَأَهۡلُهَا غَٰفِلُونَ

This ˹sending of the messengers˺ is because your Lord would never destroy a society for their wrongdoing while its people are unaware ˹of the truth˺.

Word by word

ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
That (is because)
Vocabulary
أَن
an
[that]
Vocabulary
لَّمۡ
lam
not
Vocabulary
يَكُن
yakun
is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
رَّبُّكَ
rabbuka
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
مُهۡلِكَ
muh'lika
one who destroys
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
ٱلۡقُرَىٰ
l-qurā
the cities
Vocabulary
Root: قري
بِظُلۡمٖ
biẓul'min
for their wrongdoing
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم
وَأَهۡلُهَا
wa-ahluhā
while their people
Vocabulary
Root: اهل
غَٰفِلُونَ
ghāfilūna
(are) unaware
Vocabulary
Root: غفل

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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.