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Qur’an 109:4 Al-Kafirun, verse 4

وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌۭ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ

Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Kafirun (109)
Verse
4 of 6
Revealed
Makki
Juz
30
Mushaf page
603

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَلَآwalāAnd not
أَنَا۠anāI am
عَابِدٌۭʿābiduna worshipperع ب د
مَّاmā(of) what
عَبَدتُّمْʿabadttumyou worshipع ب د

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 109:4 in Al-Kafirun.

  • 109:2لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَI do not worship what you worship.
  • 109:3وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُNor are you worshippers of what I worship.
  • 109:5وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُNor will you be worshippers of what I worship.
  • 109:6لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِFor you is your religion, and for me is my religion."

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