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Al-Jinn 72:8

وَأَنَّا لَمَسۡنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدۡنَٰهَا مُلِئَتۡ حَرَسٗا شَدِيدٗا وَشُهُبٗا

˹Earlier˺ we tried to reach heaven ˹for news˺, only to find it filled with stern guards and shooting stars.

Word by word

وَأَنَّا
wa-annā
And that we
Vocabulary
لَمَسۡنَا
lamasnā
sought to touch
Vocabulary
Root: لمس
ٱلسَّمَآءَ
l-samāa
the heaven
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
فَوَجَدۡنَٰهَا
fawajadnāhā
but we found it
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
مُلِئَتۡ
muli-at
filled (with)
Vocabulary
Root: ملا
حَرَسٗا
ḥarasan
guards
Vocabulary
Root: حرس
شَدِيدٗا
shadīdan
severe
Vocabulary
Root: شدد
وَشُهُبٗا
washuhuban
and flaming fires
Vocabulary
Root: شهب

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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.