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Qur’an 77:16 Al-Mursalat, verse 16

أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

Did We not destroy the former peoples?

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

Surah
Al-Mursalat (77)
Verse
16 of 50
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
580

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
أَلَمْalamDid not
نُهْلِكِnuh'likiWe destroyه ل ك
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَl-awalīnathe former (people)أ و ل

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 77:16 in Al-Mursalat.

  • 77:14وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِAnd what can make you know what is the Day of Judgement?
  • 77:15وَيْلٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَWoe, that Day, to the deniers.
  • 77:17ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَThen We will follow them with the later ones.
  • 77:18كَذَٰلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِٱلْمُجْرِمِينَThus do We deal with the criminals.

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