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Al-Anfal 8:23

وَلَوۡ عَلِمَ ٱللَّهُ فِيهِمۡ خَيۡرٗا لَّأَسۡمَعَهُمۡۖ وَلَوۡ أَسۡمَعَهُمۡ لَتَوَلَّواْ وَّهُم مُّعۡرِضُونَ

Had Allah known any goodness in them, He would have certainly made them hear. ˹But˺ even if He had made them hear, they would have surely turned away heedlessly.

Word by word

وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
عَلِمَ
ʿalima
(had) known
Vocabulary
Root: علم
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
فِيهِمۡ
fīhim
in them
Vocabulary
خَيۡرٗا
khayran
any good
Vocabulary
Root: خير
لَّأَسۡمَعَهُمۡۖ
la-asmaʿahum
surely, He (would) have made them hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
وَلَوۡ
walaw
And if
Vocabulary
أَسۡمَعَهُمۡ
asmaʿahum
He had made them hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
لَتَوَلَّواْ
latawallaw
surely they would have turned away
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
وَّهُم
wahum
while they
Vocabulary
مُّعۡرِضُونَ
muʿ'riḍūna
(were) averse
Vocabulary
Root: عرض

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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.