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Al-A'raf 7:94

وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا فِي قَرۡيَةٖ مِّن نَّبِيٍّ إِلَّآ أَخَذۡنَآ أَهۡلَهَا بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَضَّرَّعُونَ

Whenever We sent a prophet to a society, We afflicted its ˹disbelieving˺ people with suffering and adversity, so perhaps they would be humbled.

Word by word

وَمَآ
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
أَرۡسَلۡنَا
arsalnā
We sent
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
فِي
fī
in
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قَرۡيَةٖ
qaryatin
a city
Vocabulary
Root: قري
مِّن
min
[of]
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نَّبِيٍّ
nabiyyin
any Prophet
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Root: نبا
إِلَّآ
illā
except
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أَخَذۡنَآ
akhadhnā
We seized
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Root: اخذ
أَهۡلَهَا
ahlahā
its people
Vocabulary
Root: اهل
بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ
bil-basāi
with adversity
Vocabulary
Root: باس
وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ
wal-ḍarāi
and hardship
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Root: ضرر
لَعَلَّهُمۡ
laʿallahum
so that they may
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يَضَّرَّعُونَ
yaḍḍarraʿūna
(become) humble
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Root: ضرع

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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.