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Qur’an 90:9 Al-Balad, verse 9

وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

And a tongue and two lips?

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

Surah: Al-Balad (90)
Verse: 9 of 20
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 594

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
وَلِسَانًۭا	walisānan	And a tongue	ل س ن
وَشَفَتَيْنِ	washafatayni	and two lips	ش ف ه

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 90:9 in Al-Balad.

90:7أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌDoes he think that no one has seen him?
90:8أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِHave We not made for him two eyes?
90:10وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِAnd have shown him the two ways?
90:11فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَBut he has not broken through the difficult pass.

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