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Al-Qalam 68:48

فَٱصۡبِرۡ لِحُكۡمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلۡحُوتِ إِذۡ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكۡظُومٞ

So be patient with your Lord’s decree, and do not be like ˹Jonah,˺ the Man of the Whale, who cried out ˹to Allah˺, in total distress.

Word by word

فَٱصۡبِرۡ
fa-iṣ'bir
So be patient
Vocabulary
Root: صبر
لِحُكۡمِ
liḥuk'mi
for (the) decision
Vocabulary
Root: حكم
رَبِّكَ
rabbika
(of) your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
وَلَا
walā
and (do) not
Vocabulary
تَكُن
takun
be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
كَصَاحِبِ
kaṣāḥibi
like (the) companion
Vocabulary
Root: صحب
ٱلۡحُوتِ
l-ḥūti
(of) the fish
Vocabulary
Root: حوت
إِذۡ
idh
when
Vocabulary
نَادَىٰ
nādā
he called out
Vocabulary
Root: ندو
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
while he
Vocabulary
مَكۡظُومٞ
makẓūmun
(was) distressed
Vocabulary
Root: كظم

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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.