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At-Tawbah 9:32

يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطۡفِـُٔواْ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفۡوَٰهِهِمۡ وَيَأۡبَى ٱللَّهُ إِلَّآ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُۥ وَلَوۡ كَرِهَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ

They wish to extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, but Allah will only allow His light to be perfected, even to the dismay of the disbelievers.

Word by word

يُرِيدُونَ
yurīdūna
They want
Vocabulary
Root: رود
أَن
an
to
Vocabulary
يُطۡفِـُٔواْ
yuṭ'fiū
extinguish
Vocabulary
Root: طفا
نُورَ
nūra
(Allah's) light
Vocabulary
Root: نور
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah's (light)
Vocabulary
Root: اله
بِأَفۡوَٰهِهِمۡ
bi-afwāhihim
with their mouths
Vocabulary
Root: فوه
وَيَأۡبَى
wayabā
but Allah refuses
Vocabulary
Root: ابي
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
but Allah refuses
Vocabulary
Root: اله
إِلَّآ
illā
except
Vocabulary
أَن
an
to
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يُتِمَّ
yutimma
perfect
Vocabulary
Root: تمم
نُورَهُۥ
nūrahu
His Light
Vocabulary
وَلَوۡ
walaw
even if
Vocabulary
كَرِهَ
kariha
the disbelievers dislike (it)
Vocabulary
Root: كره
ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ
l-kāfirūna
the disbelievers dislike (it)
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.