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Al-An'am 6:42

وَلَقَدۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَآ إِلَىٰٓ أُمَمٖ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ

Indeed, We have sent messengers before you ˹O Prophet˺ to other people who We put through suffering and adversity ˹for their denial˺, so perhaps they would be humbled.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
أَرۡسَلۡنَآ
arsalnā
We sent (Messengers)
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
إِلَىٰٓ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
أُمَمٖ
umamin
nations
Vocabulary
Root: امم
مِّن
min
from
Vocabulary
قَبۡلِكَ
qablika
before you
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم
fa-akhadhnāhum
then We seized them
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ
bil-basāi
with adversity
Vocabulary
Root: باس
وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ
wal-ḍarāi
and hardship
Vocabulary
Root: ضرر
لَعَلَّهُمۡ
laʿallahum
so that they may
Vocabulary
يَتَضَرَّعُونَ
yataḍarraʿūna
humble themselves
Vocabulary
Root: ضرع

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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.