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Al-Anfal 8:73

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بَعۡضُهُمۡ أَوۡلِيَآءُ بَعۡضٍۚ إِلَّا تَفۡعَلُوهُ تَكُن فِتۡنَةٞ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَفَسَادٞ كَبِيرٞ

As for the disbelievers, they are guardians of one another. And unless you ˹believers˺ act likewise, there will be great oppression and corruption in the land.

Word by word

وَٱلَّذِينَ
wa-alladhīna
And those who
Vocabulary
كَفَرُواْ
kafarū
disbelieve
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
بَعۡضُهُمۡ
baʿḍuhum
some of them
Vocabulary
Root: بعض
أَوۡلِيَآءُ
awliyāu
(are) allies
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
بَعۡضٍۚ
baʿḍin
(to) another
Vocabulary
Root: بعض
إِلَّا
illā
If not
Vocabulary
تَفۡعَلُوهُ
tafʿalūhu
you do it
Vocabulary
Root: فعل
تَكُن
takun
(there) will be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
فِتۡنَةٞ
fit'natun
oppression
Vocabulary
Root: فتن
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
وَفَسَادٞ
wafasādun
and corruption
Vocabulary
Root: فسد
كَبِيرٞ
kabīrun
great
Vocabulary
Root: كبر

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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.