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Quran Maqasid

Surah Al-A'raf, verse 173

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Without diacritics

او تقولوا انما اشرك اباؤنا من قبل وكنا ذرية من بعدهم افتهلكنا بما فعل المبطلون

Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us May have taken false gods, But we are (their) descendants After them: wilt Thou then Destroy us because of the deeds Of men who were futile?"

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  • Verse 173 of 206
  • Juz 9
  • Page 173

Word by word

  1. أَوْOraw
  2. تَقُولُوٓا۟you saytaqūlū
  3. إِنَّمَآOnlyinnamā
  4. أَشْرَكَpartners (were) associated (with Allah)ashraka
  5. ءَابَآؤُنَا(by) our forefathersābāunā
  6. مِنfrommin
  7. قَبْلُbefore (us)qablu
  8. وَكُنَّاand we arewakunnā
  9. ذُرِّيَّةًۭdescendantsdhurriyyatan
  10. مِّنۢfrommin
  11. بَعْدِهِمْ ۖafter thembaʿdihim
  12. أَفَتُهْلِكُنَاSo will You destroy usafatuh'likunā
  13. بِمَاfor whatbimā
  14. فَعَلَdidfaʿala
  15. ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَthe falsifiersl-mub'ṭilūna

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