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Quran Maqasid

Surah Ali 'Imran, verse 117

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مثل ما ينفقون في هذه الحياة الدنيا كمثل ريح فيها صر اصابت حرث قوم ظلموا انفسهم فاهلكته وما ظلمهم الله ولكن انفسهم يظلمون

What they spend In the life Of this (material) world May be likened to a Wind Which brings a nipping frost: It strikes and destroys the harvest Of men who have wronged Their own souls: it is not God That hath wronged them, but They wrong themselves.

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  • Verse 117 of 200
  • Juz 4
  • Page 65

Word by word

  1. مَثَلُExamplemathalu
  2. مَا(of) whatmā
  3. يُنفِقُونَthey spendyunfiqūna
  4. فِىinfī
  5. هَـٰذِهِthishādhihi
  6. ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ[the] lifel-ḥayati
  7. ٱلدُّنْيَا(of) the worldl-dun'yā
  8. كَمَثَلِ(is) like (the) examplekamathali
  9. رِيحٍۢ(of) a windrīḥin
  10. فِيهَاin itfīhā
  11. صِرٌّ(is) frostṣirrun
  12. أَصَابَتْit struckaṣābat
  13. حَرْثَ(the) harvestḥartha
  14. قَوْمٍۢ(of) a peopleqawmin
  15. ظَلَمُوٓا۟who wrongedẓalamū
  16. أَنفُسَهُمْthemselvesanfusahum
  17. فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ ۚthen destroyed itfa-ahlakathu
  18. وَمَاAnd notwamā
  19. ظَلَمَهُمُ(has) wronged themẓalamahumu
  20. ٱللَّهُAllahl-lahu
  21. وَلَـٰكِنْ[and] butwalākin
  22. أَنفُسَهُمْthemselvesanfusahum
  23. يَظْلِمُونَthey wrongedyaẓlimūna

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