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Al-An'am 6:156

أَن تَقُولُوٓاْ إِنَّمَآ أُنزِلَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبُ عَلَىٰ طَآئِفَتَيۡنِ مِن قَبۡلِنَا وَإِن كُنَّا عَن دِرَاسَتِهِمۡ لَغَٰفِلِينَ

You ˹pagans˺ can no longer say, “Scriptures were only revealed to two groups before us and we were unaware of their teachings.”

Word by word

أَن
an
Lest
Vocabulary
تَقُولُوٓاْ
taqūlū
you say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِنَّمَآ
innamā
Only
Vocabulary
أُنزِلَ
unzila
was revealed
Vocabulary
Root: نزل
ٱلۡكِتَٰبُ
l-kitābu
the Book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
on
Vocabulary
طَآئِفَتَيۡنِ
ṭāifatayni
the two groups
Vocabulary
Root: طوف
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
قَبۡلِنَا
qablinā
before us
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
وَإِن
wa-in
and indeed
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
عَن
ʿan
about
Vocabulary
دِرَاسَتِهِمۡ
dirāsatihim
their study
Vocabulary
Root: درس
لَغَٰفِلِينَ
laghāfilīna
certainly 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.