← Al-Kahf
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Al-Kahf · Ayah 14
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Translation
And We made firm
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَرَبَطْنَا (And We made firm) 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)
وَرَبَطْنَا (And We made firm) 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 bound [i.e., made firm] their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.
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