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Al-A'raf 7:97

أَفَأَمِنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأۡتِيَهُم بَأۡسُنَا بَيَٰتٗا وَهُمۡ نَآئِمُونَ

Did the people of those societies feel secure that Our punishment would not come upon them by night while they were asleep?

Word by word

أَفَأَمِنَ
afa-amina
Then did feel secure
Vocabulary
Root: امن
أَهۡلُ
ahlu
(the) people
Vocabulary
Root: اهل
ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ
l-qurā
(of) the cities
Vocabulary
Root: قري
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
يَأۡتِيَهُم
yatiyahum
comes to them
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
بَأۡسُنَا
basunā
Our punishment
Vocabulary
Root: باس
بَيَٰتٗا
bayātan
(at) night
Vocabulary
Root: بيت
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
Vocabulary
نَآئِمُونَ
nāimūna
(were) asleep
Vocabulary
Root: نوم

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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.