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Qur’an 90:1 Al-Balad, verse 1

لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

I swear by this city, Makkah -

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

Surah: Al-Balad (90)
Verse: 1 of 20
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 594

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
لَآ	lā	Nay
أُقْسِمُ	uq'simu	I swear	ق س م
بِهَـٰذَا	bihādhā	by this
ٱلْبَلَدِ	l-baladi	city	ب ل 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 90:1 in Al-Balad.

90:2وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِAnd you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
90:3وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَAnd [by] the father and that which was born [of him],

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