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Quran Maqasid

Surah Al-Jathiyah, verse 24

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Without diacritics

وقالوا ما هي الا حياتنا الدنيا نموت ونحيا وما يهلكنا الا الدهر وما لهم بذلك من علم ان هم الا يظنون

And they say: "What is There but our life In this world? We shall die and we live, And nothing but Time Can destroy us." But Of that they have no Knowledge: they merely conjecture:

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  • Verse 24 of 37
  • Juz 25
  • Page 501

Word by word

  1. وَقَالُوا۟And they saywaqālū
  2. مَاNotmā
  3. هِىَithiya
  4. إِلَّا(is) butillā
  5. حَيَاتُنَاour lifeḥayātunā
  6. ٱلدُّنْيَا(of) the worldl-dun'yā
  7. نَمُوتُwe dienamūtu
  8. وَنَحْيَاand we livewanaḥyā
  9. وَمَاand notwamā
  10. يُهْلِكُنَآdestroys usyuh'likunā
  11. إِلَّاexceptillā
  12. ٱلدَّهْرُ ۚthe timel-dahru
  13. وَمَاAnd notwamā
  14. لَهُمfor themlahum
  15. بِذَٰلِكَof thatbidhālika
  16. مِنْanymin
  17. عِلْمٍ ۖknowledgeʿil'min
  18. إِنْnotin
  19. هُمْtheyhum
  20. إِلَّا(do) butillā
  21. يَظُنُّونَguessyaẓunnūna

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