The Letter Sad 38:63

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Arabic English Morphology
Did we take them V
سِخْرِيًّا sikh'riyyan
(in) ridicule Noun
or Prep
زَاغَتْ zāghat
has turned away V
عَنْهُمُ ʿanhumu
from them Prep
the vision Noun

and took as a laughing-stock? Have our eyes missed them?’

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

أَتَّخَذۡنَـٰهُمۡ سِخۡرِیًّا أَمۡ زَاغَتۡ عَنۡهُمُ ٱلۡأَبۡصَـٰرُ ۝٦٣

attakhadhnāhum sikh'riyyan am zāghat ʿanhumu l-abṣār