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Quran Maqasid

Surah At-Tawbah, verse 23

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Without diacritics

يا ايها الذين امنوا لا تتخذوا اباءكم واخوانكم اولياء ان استحبوا الكفر على الايمان ومن يتولهم منكم فاولئك هم الظالمون

O ye who believe! Take not For protectors your fathers And your brothers if they love Infidelity above Faith: If any of you do so, They do wrong.

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  • Verse 23 of 129
  • Juz 10
  • Page 190

Word by word

  1. يَـٰٓأَيُّهَاO youyāayyuhā
  2. ٱلَّذِينَwhoalladhīna
  3. ءَامَنُوا۟believeāmanū
  4. لَا(Do) notlā
  5. تَتَّخِذُوٓا۟taketattakhidhū
  6. ءَابَآءَكُمْyour fathersābāakum
  7. وَإِخْوَٰنَكُمْand your brotherswa-ikh'wānakum
  8. أَوْلِيَآءَ(as) alliesawliyāa
  9. إِنِifini
  10. ٱسْتَحَبُّوا۟they preferis'taḥabbū
  11. ٱلْكُفْرَ[the] disbeliefl-kuf'ra
  12. عَلَىoverʿalā
  13. ٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ ۚ[the] beliefl-īmāni
  14. وَمَنAnd whoeverwaman
  15. يَتَوَلَّهُمtakes them as alliesyatawallahum
  16. مِّنكُمْamong youminkum
  17. فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَthen thosefa-ulāika
  18. هُمُ[they]humu
  19. ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ(are) the wrongdoersl-ẓālimūna

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