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Al-Anfal 8:35

وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمۡ عِندَ ٱلۡبَيۡتِ إِلَّا مُكَآءٗ وَتَصۡدِيَةٗۚ فَذُوقُواْ ٱلۡعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَكۡفُرُونَ

Their prayer at the Sacred House was nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment for your disbelief.

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
صَلَاتُهُمۡ
ṣalātuhum
their prayer
Vocabulary
Root: صلو
عِندَ
ʿinda
at
Vocabulary
Root: عند
ٱلۡبَيۡتِ
l-bayti
the House
Vocabulary
Root: بيت
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
مُكَآءٗ
mukāan
whistling
Vocabulary
Root: مكو
وَتَصۡدِيَةٗۚ
wataṣdiyatan
and clapping
Vocabulary
Root: صدي
فَذُوقُواْ
fadhūqū
So taste
Vocabulary
Root: ذوق
ٱلۡعَذَابَ
l-ʿadhāba
the punishment
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
بِمَا
bimā
because
Vocabulary
كُنتُمۡ
kuntum
you used to
Vocabulary
Root: كون
تَكۡفُرُونَ
takfurūna
disbelieve
Vocabulary
Root: كفر

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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.