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Al-A'raf 7:164

وَإِذۡ قَالَتۡ أُمَّةٞ مِّنۡهُمۡ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوۡمًا ٱللَّهُ مُهۡلِكُهُمۡ أَوۡ مُعَذِّبُهُمۡ عَذَابٗا شَدِيدٗاۖ قَالُواْ مَعۡذِرَةً إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَّقُونَ

When some of ˹the righteous among˺ them questioned ˹their fellow Sabbath-keepers˺, “Why do you ˹bother to˺ warn those ˹Sabbath-breakers˺ who will either be destroyed or severely punished by Allah?” They replied, “Just to be free from your Lord’s blame, and so perhaps they may abstain.”

Word by word

وَإِذۡ
wa-idh
And when
Vocabulary
قَالَتۡ
qālat
said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أُمَّةٞ
ummatun
a community
Vocabulary
Root: امم
مِّنۡهُمۡ
min'hum
among them
Vocabulary
لِمَ
lima
Why
Vocabulary
تَعِظُونَ
taʿiẓūna
(do) you preach
Vocabulary
Root: وعظ
قَوۡمًا
qawman
a people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
(whom) Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مُهۡلِكُهُمۡ
muh'likuhum
(is going to) destroy them
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مُعَذِّبُهُمۡ
muʿadhibuhum
punish them
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
عَذَابٗا
ʿadhāban
(with) a punishment
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
شَدِيدٗاۖ
shadīdan
severe
Vocabulary
Root: شدد
قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَعۡذِرَةً
maʿdhiratan
To be absolved
Vocabulary
Root: عذر
إِلَىٰ
ilā
before
Vocabulary
رَبِّكُمۡ
rabbikum
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
وَلَعَلَّهُمۡ
walaʿallahum
and that they may
Vocabulary
يَتَّقُونَ
yattaqūna
become righteous
Vocabulary
Root: وقي

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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.