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Al-Anfal 8:21

وَلَا تَكُونُواْ كَٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ سَمِعۡنَا وَهُمۡ لَا يَسۡمَعُونَ

Do not be like those who say, “We hear,” but in fact they are not listening.

Word by word

وَلَا
walā
And (do) not
Vocabulary
تَكُونُواْ
takūnū
be
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Root: كون
كَٱلَّذِينَ
ka-alladhīna
like those who
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قَالُواْ
qālū
say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
سَمِعۡنَا
samiʿ'nā
We heard
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
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لَا
lā
do not
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يَسۡمَعُونَ
yasmaʿūna
hear
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Root: سمع

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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.