Hafiz soon
Al-Isra · 17:68

Then do you feel secure that [instead] He will not cause a part of the land to swallow you or send against you a storm of stones? Then you would not find for yourselves an advocate.

Sahih International

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أَفَأَمِنتُمْ

afa-amintum

Do you then feel secure

Word breakdown

أ

Harf · Interrogative particle

?

ف

Harf · Supplemental particle

then

أمن

Fi'l · Verb

Do you then feel secure

RootامنAmn

to believe, faith, security, trust

879× in the Quran · Very common

LemmaأَمِنَVerb (form I) - to feel secure

تُمْ

Ism · Personal pronoun

you all/your

Grammar rules

Past tense verb

أَفَأَمِنتُمْ (Do you then feel secure) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Lesson 8 · Verbs — Past & Present
Question marker

أَفَأَمِنتُمْ (Do you then feel secure) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition