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Al-A'raf 7:197

وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ لَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ نَصۡرَكُمۡ وَلَآ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَنصُرُونَ

But those ˹false gods˺ you call besides Him can neither help you nor even themselves.”

Word by word

وَٱلَّذِينَ
wa-alladhīna
And those whom
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تَدۡعُونَ
tadʿūna
you invoke
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Root: دعو
مِن
min
from
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دُونِهِۦ
dūnihi
besides Him
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لَا
lā
not
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يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ
yastaṭīʿūna
they are able
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Root: طوع
نَصۡرَكُمۡ
naṣrakum
(to) help you
Vocabulary
Root: نصر
وَلَآ
walā
and not
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أَنفُسَهُمۡ
anfusahum
themselves
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Root: نفس
يَنصُرُونَ
yanṣurūna
can they help
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Root: نصر

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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.