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Quran Maqasid

Surah Al-Anbya, verse 44

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Without diacritics

بل متعنا هؤلاء واباءهم حتى طال عليهم العمر افلا يرون انا ناتي الارض ننقصها من اطرافها افهم الغالبون

Nay, We gave the good things Of this life to these men And their fathers until The period grew long for them; See they not that We Gradually reduce the land (In their control) from Its outlying borders? Is it Then they who will win?

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  • Verse 44 of 112
  • Juz 17
  • Page 325

Word by word

  1. بَلْNaybal
  2. مَتَّعْنَاWe gave provisionmattaʿnā
  3. هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ(to) thesehāulāi
  4. وَءَابَآءَهُمْand their fatherswaābāahum
  5. حَتَّىٰuntilḥattā
  6. طَالَgrew longṭāla
  7. عَلَيْهِمُfor themʿalayhimu
  8. ٱلْعُمُرُ ۗthe lifel-ʿumuru
  9. أَفَلَاThen do notafalā
  10. يَرَوْنَthey seeyarawna
  11. أَنَّاthat Weannā
  12. نَأْتِىWe comenatī
  13. ٱلْأَرْضَ(to) the landl-arḍa
  14. نَنقُصُهَاWe reduce itnanquṣuhā
  15. مِنْfrommin
  16. أَطْرَافِهَآ ۚits bordersaṭrāfihā
  17. أَفَهُمُSo is (it) theyafahumu
  18. ٱلْغَـٰلِبُونَ(who will be) overcomingl-ghālibūna

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