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Al-Qalam 68:43

خَٰشِعَةً أَبۡصَٰرُهُمۡ تَرۡهَقُهُمۡ ذِلَّةٞۖ وَقَدۡ كَانُواْ يُدۡعَوۡنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمۡ سَٰلِمُونَ

with eyes downcast, totally covered with disgrace. For they were ˹always˺ called to prostrate ˹in the world˺ when they were fully capable ˹but they chose not to˺.

Word by word

خَٰشِعَةً
khāshiʿatan
Humbled
Vocabulary
Root: خشع
أَبۡصَٰرُهُمۡ
abṣāruhum
their eyes
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
تَرۡهَقُهُمۡ
tarhaquhum
will cover them
Vocabulary
Root: رهق
ذِلَّةٞۖ
dhillatun
humiliation
Vocabulary
Root: ذلل
وَقَدۡ
waqad
And indeed
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يُدۡعَوۡنَ
yud'ʿawna
called
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِلَى
ilā
to
Vocabulary
ٱلسُّجُودِ
l-sujūdi
prostrate
Vocabulary
Root: سجد
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
Vocabulary
سَٰلِمُونَ
sālimūna
(were) sound
Vocabulary
Root: سلم

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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.