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Al-Isra · Ayah 4
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Translation
And We decreed
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَقَضَيْنَآ (And We decreed) 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)
وَقَضَيْنَآ (And We decreed) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture that, "You will surely cause corruption on the earth twice, and you will surely reach [a degree of] great haughtiness."
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