Qur’an 71:21 Nuh, verse 21
قَالَ نُوحٌۭ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًۭا
Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.
Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.
- Surah
- Nuh (71)
- Verse
- 21 of 28
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- 29
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Word by word
| Arabic | Transliteration | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَالَ | qāla | Said | ق و ل |
| نُوحٌۭ | nūḥun | Nuh | |
| رَّبِّ | rabbi | My Lord | ر ب ب |
| إِنَّهُمْ | innahum | Indeed, they | |
| عَصَوْنِى | ʿaṣawnī | disobeyed me | ع ص ي |
| وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ | wa-ittabaʿū | and followed | ت ب ع |
| مَن | man | (the one) who | |
| لَّمْ | lam | (did) not | |
| يَزِدْهُ | yazid'hu | increase him | ز ي د |
| مَالُهُۥ | māluhu | his wealth | م و ل |
| وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ | wawaladuhu | and his children | و ل د |
| إِلَّا | illā | except | |
| خَسَارًۭا | khasāran | (in) loss | خ س ر |
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 71:21 in Nuh.
- 71:19وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًۭاAnd Allah has made for you the earth an expanse
- 71:20لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًۭا فِجَاجًۭاThat you may follow therein roads of passage.' "
- 71:22وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًۭا كُبَّارًۭاAnd they conspired an immense conspiracy.
- 71:23وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّۭا وَلَا سُوَاعًۭا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًۭاAnd said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
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