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An-Nahl · Ayah 112
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Translation
And Allah sets forth
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَضَرَبَ (And Allah sets forth) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Conjunction وَ (and)
وَضَرَبَ (And Allah sets forth) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And Allāh presents an example: a city [i.e., Makkah] which was safe and secure, its provision coming to it in abundance from every location, but it denied the favors of Allāh. So Allāh made it taste the envelopment of hunger and fear for what they had been doing.
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