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Quran Maqasid

Surah Al-A'raf, verse 171

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Without diacritics

واذ نتقنا الجبل فوقهم كانه ظلة وظنوا انه واقع بهم خذوا ما اتيناكم بقوة واذكروا ما فيه لعلكم تتقون

When We shook the Mount Over them, as if it had been A canopy, and they thought It was going to fall on them (We said): "Hold firmly To what We have given you, And bring (ever) to remembrance What is therein; Perchance ye may fear God."

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  • Verse 171 of 206
  • Juz 9
  • Page 173

Word by word

  1. ۞ وَإِذْAnd whenwa-idh
  2. نَتَقْنَاWe raisednataqnā
  3. ٱلْجَبَلَthe mountainl-jabala
  4. فَوْقَهُمْabove themfawqahum
  5. كَأَنَّهُۥas if it waska-annahu
  6. ظُلَّةٌۭa canopyẓullatun
  7. وَظَنُّوٓا۟and they thoughtwaẓannū
  8. أَنَّهُۥthat itannahu
  9. وَاقِعٌۢ(would) fallwāqiʿun
  10. بِهِمْupon thembihim
  11. خُذُوا۟(We said), "Takekhudhū
  12. مَآwhatmā
  13. ءَاتَيْنَـٰكُمWe have given youātaynākum
  14. بِقُوَّةٍۢwith strengthbiquwwatin
  15. وَٱذْكُرُوا۟and rememberwa-udh'kurū
  16. مَاwhatmā
  17. فِيهِ(is) in itfīhi
  18. لَعَلَّكُمْso that you maylaʿallakum
  19. تَتَّقُونَfear Allahtattaqūna

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