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Al-Anfal 8:15

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِذَا لَقِيتُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ زَحۡفٗا فَلَا تُوَلُّوهُمُ ٱلۡأَدۡبَارَ

O believers! When you face the disbelievers in battle, never turn your backs to them.

Word by word

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا
yāayyuhā
O you
Vocabulary
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
who
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ءَامَنُوٓاْ
āmanū
believe
Vocabulary
Root: امن
إِذَا
idhā
When
Vocabulary
لَقِيتُمُ
laqītumu
you meet
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Root: لقي
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna
those who
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كَفَرُواْ
kafarū
disbelieve
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
زَحۡفٗا
zaḥfan
advancing
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Root: زحف
فَلَا
falā
then (do) not
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تُوَلُّوهُمُ
tuwallūhumu
turn to them
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
ٱلۡأَدۡبَارَ
l-adbāra
the backs
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Root: دبر

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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.