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Al-Qalam 68:51

وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَيُزۡلِقُونَكَ بِأَبۡصَٰرِهِمۡ لَمَّا سَمِعُواْ ٱلذِّكۡرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجۡنُونٞ

The disbelievers would almost cut you down with their eyes when they hear ˹you recite˺ the Reminder, and say, “He is certainly a madman.”

Word by word

وَإِن
wa-in
And indeed
Vocabulary
يَكَادُ
yakādu
would almost
Vocabulary
Root: كود
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those who
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كَفَرُواْ
kafarū
disbelieve
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
لَيُزۡلِقُونَكَ
layuz'liqūnaka
surely make you slip
Vocabulary
Root: زلق
بِأَبۡصَٰرِهِمۡ
bi-abṣārihim
with their eyes
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
لَمَّا
lammā
when
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سَمِعُواْ
samiʿū
they hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلذِّكۡرَ
l-dhik'ra
the Message
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Root: ذكر
وَيَقُولُونَ
wayaqūlūna
and they say
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Root: قول
إِنَّهُۥ
innahu
Indeed he
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لَمَجۡنُونٞ
lamajnūnun
(is) surely mad
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Root: جنن

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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.