But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time."
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Grammar, phrase by phrase
فَأَزَلَّهُمَا ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ عَنْهَا
(But Satan caused them to slip out of it)
Root زلل — to slip, to slide, to make a mistake · 4 times in the Quran
Root شطن — to oppose and mislead, Satan/devil/evil one · 88 times in the Quran
فَأَزَلَّهُمَاword 1
Resumptive Particle · حرف استئنافA resumptive particle is a وَ or فَ that begins a fresh statement after a pause or a shift of topic — it starts the speech anew rather than adding one more item to a list. The prefix فَ · 'then' at the front of فَأَزَلَّهُمَا opens such a fresh start. L14 · R1
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. أَزَلَّ speaks of an action already carried out: 'Then made [both of] them slip', from the root زلل: to slip, to slide, to make a mistake. L1 · R7
Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past-tense verb describes an action already completed. Its plain base shape — the shape Arabic uses for a single 'he' — carries no who-ending glued to its tail, and أَزَلَّ is exactly that bare base: 'Then made [both of] them slip', from the root زلل: to slip, to slide, to make a mistake. L8 · R1
Doubled Verb · فعل مضاعفA doubled verb is one whose second and third root letters are the same letter, written once with the shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped doubling mark. The root of أَزَلَّ is زلل, its two ل's folded into the single ل carrying that shaddah ـّ. L24 · R10
Form IV Verb · أَفْعَلَA Form IV verb is a verb stamped into the pattern that adds a hamza to the front of its three root letters — the way سَلِمَ 'was safe' becomes أَسْلَمَ 'submitted' — often giving the sense of making or causing the action. أَزَلَّ carries that added hamza at its front: 'Then made [both of] them slip', from the root زلل: to slip, to slide, to make a mistake. L12 · R5
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'me / us / them' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. هُمَا · 'them two/their' is fastened to the tail of the verb here — فَأَزَلَّهُمَا — naming the one the action lands on. L3 · R6
Direct Object · مفعول بهThe direct object is the one the action lands on, standing in the accusative — the landed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small slanted stroke above the last letter. The ending هُمَا 'them two' is that object: the making-slip landed on them both. A pronoun keeps its fixed written shape, so no fathah appears — the accusative is the role it fills. L9 · R5
ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُword 2
Definite Article · أل التعريفThe definite article is the prefix ٱل at the front of a noun (a naming word); it means 'the' — one specific, known one. Because the next letter, ش, is one of the fourteen 'sun-letters' — letters made in the same part of the mouth as ل itself, which swallow the ل of ٱل so it is written but not heard — the ل of the prefix melts into it and doubles it, shown by the shaddah ـّ — a small w-shaped doubling mark written above the letter: ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ. L2 · R9
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea — and in Arabic this includes proper names. شَّيْطَٰنُ is a proper name: 'the Shaitaan'. L1 · R6
Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending a naming word takes as the subject of its sentence, shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter. ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ ends in that ḍammah ـُ. L2 · R10
Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action of a verb, and it always takes the nominative — shown here by the ḍammah ـُ, the small curl on ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ. Satan is the doer of أَزَلَّ: he is the one who made them slip. L9 · R2
عَنْهَاword 3
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word of one to three letters that works like glue — it connects or adjusts other words rather than naming something or describing an action, and it can never be the one a sentence is about. عَنْ · 'from/about' is such a helper. L1 · R9
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little helper word that relates one thing to another; Arabic keeps a short list of them — small words like فِي 'in', مِنْ 'from', and عَلَىٰ 'on'. عَنْ · 'from/about' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'me / us / them' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. هَا · 'her/her' hangs on the little relation-word in عَنْهَا, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6
The Shaytan made them slip therefrom — either meaning he led Adam and Hawwa' away from Paradise, or, as al-Hasan and Qatadah said, he tripped them by means of the forbidden tree.
Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:36
فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا مِمَّا كَانَا فِيهِ ۖ
(…and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been.)
Root خرج — to go out, bring forth · 182 times in the Quran
Root كون — to be, exist, happen · 1,390 times in the Quran
فَأَخْرَجَهُمَاword 4
Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix فَ at the front of فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا is a conjunction — a small joining word meaning 'and then' — linking what follows to what came before; the word it joins in must stand in the same grammatical case as its partner before the joint — the same role in the sentence, even when the two words write that case with different endings. L4 · R4
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. أَخْرَجَ speaks of an action already carried out: 'and he got [both of] them out', from the root خرج: to go out, bring forth. L1 · R7
Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past-tense verb describes an action already completed. Its plain base shape — the shape Arabic uses for a single 'he' — carries no who-ending glued to its tail, and أَخْرَجَ is exactly that bare base: 'and he got [both of] them out', from the root خرج: to go out, bring forth. L8 · R1
Form IV Verb · أَفْعَلَA Form IV verb is a verb stamped into the pattern that adds a hamza to the front of its three root letters — the way سَلِمَ 'was safe' becomes أَسْلَمَ 'submitted' — often giving the sense of making or causing the action. أَخْرَجَ carries that added hamza at its front: 'and he got [both of] them out', from the root خرج: to go out, bring forth. L12 · R5
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'me / us / them' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. هُمَا · 'them two/their' is fastened to the tail of the verb here — فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا — naming the one the action lands on. L3 · R6
Direct Object · مفعول بهThe direct object is the one the action lands on, standing in the accusative — the landed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small slanted stroke above the last letter. The ending هُمَا 'them two' is that object: the removal landed on them both. A pronoun keeps its fixed written shape, so no fathah appears — the accusative is the role it fills. L9 · R5
مِمَّاword 5
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word of one to three letters that works like glue — it connects or adjusts other words rather than naming something or describing an action, and it can never be the one a sentence is about. مِ · 'from/of' is such a helper. L1 · R9
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little helper word that relates one thing to another; Arabic keeps a short list of them — small words like فِي 'in', مِنْ 'from', and عَلَىٰ 'on'. مِ · 'from/of' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2
Relative Pronoun · اسم موصولA relative pronoun is a word that hooks a whole describing sentence onto its meaning. مَّا · 'from what' is the relative word Arabic uses for non-human things — 'what' or 'that which' — one fixed shape for any gender and any number: its ending never changes to show its job in the sentence. L5 · R13
كَانَاword 6
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. كَانَ speaks of an action already carried out: 'they [both] were', from the root كون: to be, exist, happen. L1 · R7
Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past-tense verb describes an action already completed — and it shows who by a small ending fastened to the verb's tail. On كَانَا that ending is ا, telling exactly who is meant: 'they [both] were', from the root كون: to be, exist, happen. L8 · R2
Weak Verb · فعل معتلA weak verb is a verb that carries و or ي — the 'weak' letters, which love to soften into long vowels or vanish — among its root letters. The root of كَانَ is كون: to be, exist, happen — and its middle letter is the weak و, so the weakness sits in the middle of the root. L24 · R4
Kāna Verb · كان وأخواتهاكَانَ 'was' is an incomplete verb: saying only 'they both were' leaves the thought hanging — were WHERE, in what? — so it needs both a topic and a comment. Here the topic is the attached ا 'they two', and the comment is the phrase فِيهِ 'in it', which completes the meaning: 'that in which they had been'. L18 · R1
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of a verb. The ending ا on كَانَا is such a suffix, standing for 'they two' — the topic كَانَ speaks about, a slot that stays in the nominative, the ḍammah ـُ form; the pronoun's fixed written shape carries that role. L3 · R6
فِيهِ ۖword 7
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word of one to three letters that works like glue — it connects or adjusts other words rather than naming something or describing an action, and it can never be the one a sentence is about. فِي · 'in' is such a helper. L1 · R9
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little helper word that relates one thing to another; Arabic keeps a short list of them — small words like فِي 'in', مِنْ 'from', and عَلَىٰ 'on'. فِي · 'in' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'me / us / them' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. هِ · 'him/his' hangs on the little relation-word in فِيهِ, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6
'And got them out from that in which they were' — meaning the clothes, the spacious dwelling, and the comfortable sustenance.
Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:36
So far: “But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been.”
وَقُلْنَا ٱهْبِطُوا۟
(And We said, "Go down, [all of you],)
Root قول — to say, speak, tell · 1,722 times in the Quran
Root هبط — to descend, fall, to cause to come down · 8 times in the Quran
وَقُلْنَاword 8
Resumptive Particle · حرف استئنافA resumptive particle is a وَ or فَ that begins a fresh statement after a pause or a shift of topic — it starts the speech anew rather than adding one more item to a list. The prefix وَ · 'and' at the front of وَقُلْنَا opens such a fresh start. L14 · R1
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. قُلْ speaks of an action already carried out: 'And We said', from the root قول: to say, speak, tell. L1 · R7
Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past-tense verb describes an action already completed — and it shows who by a small ending fastened to the verb's tail. On وَقُلْنَا that ending is نَا, telling exactly who is meant: 'And We said', from the root قول: to say, speak, tell. L8 · R2
Weak Verb · فعل معتلA weak verb is a verb that carries و or ي — the 'weak' letters, which love to soften into long vowels or vanish — among its root letters. The root of قُلْ is قول: to say, speak, tell — and its middle letter is the weak و, so the weakness sits in the middle of the root. L24 · R4
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'I / you / he' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. نَا · 'us/our' is fastened to the tail of the verb here — وَقُلْنَا — naming the one who did the action. L3 · R6
Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, so it stands in the nominative — the doer's form, usually shown by a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. The ending نَا on وَقُلْنَا is that doer, 'We'; on this attached pronoun the shape is fixed, so no ḍammah appears, but the role it fills is the nominative one. L9 · R4
ٱهْبِطُوا۟word 9
Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. ٱهْبِطُ is a command: 'Go down (all of you)', from the root هبط: to descend, fall, to cause to come down. L1 · R7
Imperative Verb · فعل أمرAn imperative verb is a direct command addressed to 'you', formed from the present-tense verb by removing its prefix and adding a helping ٱ when what remains starts with a vowelless letter. ٱهْبِطُوا۟ shows that helping ٱ, commanding a group: 'go down!' — the ending وا۟ pointing the order at 'you all'. L10 · R1
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'I / you / he' that cannot stand alone — it is glued onto the end of another word, and each form carries within it exactly who is meant. وا۟ · 'you all/your' is fastened to the tail of the verb here — ٱهْبِطُوا۟ — naming the one who did the action. L3 · R6
Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, so it stands in the nominative — the doer's form, usually shown by a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. The ending وا۟ on ٱهْبِطُوا۟ is that doer, 'you all'; on this attached pronoun the shape is fixed, so no ḍammah appears, but the role it fills is the nominative one. L9 · R4
بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّۭ ۖ
(…as enemies to one another,)
Root بعض — some, part, a portion · 158 times in the Quran
Root عدو — to be an enemy, enmity, hostility, to transgress · 106 times in the Quran
بَعْضُكُمْword 10
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. بَعْضُ names such a thing: 'some of you', from the root بعض: some, part, a portion. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. بَعْضُكُمْ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending a naming word takes as the topic of its statement, shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter. بَعْضُ ends in that ḍammah ـُ. L2 · R10
Subject (Mubtada') · مبتدأThe subject is the naming word a statement opens by talking about — its topic — standing in the nominative, shown here by the ḍammah ـُ above its last letter. بَعْضُكُمْ 'some of you' is that topic, and 'an enemy to others' is what is said about it. L6 · R2
Circumstantial (Hāl) · الحالThe ḥāl describes the state things are in while the main action happens, and one of its forms is a whole mini-sentence. The sentence opening with بَعْضُكُمْ — 'some of you being an enemy to others' — describes the state in which they go down. L21 · R6
Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word for 'your/you all' glued onto the end of another word. The ending كُمْ on بَعْضُكُمْ stands for 'you all': 'some OF you'. L3 · R6
Possessive (Idafa) · مضاف إليهA possessive (iḍāfah) chains an owner onto the thing owned, and the owner carries the genitive — the owner's ending, usually shown by a kasrah ـِ, a small slanted stroke below the last letter. The ending كُمْ 'you all' is that owner glued onto بَعْضُ: 'some of you'. A pronoun like كُمْ keeps its fixed written shape, so no kasrah appears on it — the genitive is the role its owner slot carries. L5 · R5
لِبَعْضٍword 11
Preposition · حرف جرThe small prefix لِ at the front of لِبَعْضٍ is a preposition — a little helper word meaning 'to/for' that relates one thing to another. A preposition 'pulls' the word that follows it into the genitive relationship — the 'of / in / with' role a word plays after such a little helper — though not every word shows that role with the same visible ending. L4 · R1
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. بَعْضٍ names such a thing: 'to others', from the root بعض: some, part, a portion. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. لِبَعْضٍ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Indefinite Noun · نكرةAn indefinite noun means 'a' or 'any' one of something — no particular one — and it never wears the definite article ال ('the'); instead it shows this with tanwīn, a doubled end-vowel mark. بَعْضٍ carries the tanwīn ـٍ — the kasrah ـِ doubled — marking it as unspecified: 'to others'. L2 · R8
Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a naming word takes after a preposition, shown here by the doubled kasrah ـٍ below the last letter. بَعْضٍ carries it because لِ stands before it. L2 · R12
عَدُوٌّۭ ۖword 12
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. عَدُوٌّ names such a thing: '(as) enemy', from the root عدو: to be an enemy, enmity, hostility, to transgress. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. عَدُوٌّۭ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Indefinite Noun · نكرةAn indefinite noun is a naming word left general — not pinned to one known thing by the definite article ال ('the') — and it shows this with tanwīn, a doubled end-vowel mark. عَدُوٌّ carries the tanwīn ـٌ — the ḍammah ـُ doubled: '(as) enemy'. L2 · R8
Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter — doubled to tanwīn ـٌ when the word is indefinite. عَدُوٌّۭ ends in that doubled ḍammah ـٌ. L2 · R10
Predicate (Khabar) · خبرThe predicate is the part that tells you something about the topic, standing in the nominative in its own right — here the doubled ḍammah ـٌ above the last letter. The topic was بَعْضُكُمْ 'some of you'; عَدُوٌّۭ, carrying that ending, is what is said about it, with the 'is' understood: 'some of you ARE an enemy to others'. L6 · R3
وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ
(…and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement)
Root ارض — earth, land, ground · 461 times in the Quran
Root قرر — to settle, establish, make firm; settlement, dwelling · 38 times in the Quran
وَلَكُمْword 13
Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix وَ at the front of وَلَكُمْ is a conjunction — a small joining word meaning 'and' — linking what follows to what came before; the word it joins in must stand in the same grammatical case as its partner before the joint — the same role in the sentence, even when the two words write that case with different endings. L4 · R4
Preposition · حرف جرThe small prefix لَ at the front of وَلَكُمْ is a preposition — a little helper word meaning 'to/for' that relates one thing to another. A preposition 'pulls' the word that follows it into the genitive relationship — the 'of / in / with' role a word plays after such a little helper — though not every word shows that role with the same visible ending. L4 · R1
Detached Pronoun · ضمير منفصلA pronoun is a mini-word standing in for a name, here كُمْ 'you all'. Joined after the preposition لَ, it names those the dwelling is for: 'for you'. L3 · R7
فِىword 14
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word of one to three letters that works like glue — it connects or adjusts other words rather than naming something or describing an action, and it can never be the one a sentence is about. فِى · 'in' is such a helper. L1 · R9
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little helper word that relates one thing to another; Arabic keeps a short list of them — small words like فِي 'in', مِنْ 'from', and عَلَىٰ 'on'. فِى · 'in' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2
ٱلْأَرْضِword 15
Definite Article · أل التعريفThe definite article is the prefix ٱلْ at the front of a noun (a naming word); it means 'the' — one specific, known one. The letter after it is a 'moon' letter — a letter not made in the same part of the mouth as ل — so the ل of the prefix keeps its own sound, both written and heard, resting with the sukūn ـْ (a small circle written above the letter): ٱلْأَرْضِ. L2 · R9
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. أَرْضِ names such a thing: 'the earth', from the root ارض: earth, land, ground. L1 · R6
Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she'. Most feminine nouns wear a visible marker — a ة at the end, a final ى, or اء — but أَرْضِ shows none of these: it is one of the words Arabic simply knows as feminine, learned with the word itself: 'the earth'. L2 · R2
Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a noun (a naming word) takes after a preposition — a little word like 'in' or 'to' — and it is marked by a kasrah ـِ, a small slanted stroke written below the letter. أَرْضِ stands right after such a little word, so its final letter carries exactly that kasrah ـِ: ٱلْأَرْضِ. L2 · R12
مُسْتَقَرٌّۭword 16
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. مُسْتَقَرٌّ names such a thing: '(is) a dwelling place', from the root قرر: to settle, establish, make firm; settlement, dwelling. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Indefinite Noun · نكرةAn indefinite noun means 'a' or 'any' one of something — no particular one — and it never wears the definite article ال ('the'); instead it shows this with tanwīn, a doubled end-vowel mark. مُسْتَقَرٌّ carries the tanwīn ـٌ — the ḍammah ـُ doubled — marking it as unspecified: '(is) a dwelling place'. L2 · R8
Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending a naming word takes as the topic of its statement, shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter — doubled to tanwīn ـٌ when the word is indefinite. مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ ends in that doubled ḍammah ـٌ. L2 · R10
Subject (Mubtada') · مبتدأThe subject is the naming word a statement talks about — its topic — standing in the nominative, shown here by the doubled ḍammah ـٌ above its last letter. مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ 'a place of settlement' is that topic; what is said about it, 'for you, upon the earth', stands before it in this sentence. L6 · R2
Passive Participle · اسم مفعولA passive participle is a naming word built from a verb's root to name what the action settles upon; for the derived verb families it begins with مُـ and carries a fathah ـَ — a small stroke — above the letter before the last root letter. مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ begins with مُـ and has that fathah on the قَ: a place where settling is made — 'a dwelling place'. L11 · R3
وَمَتَـٰعٌ إِلَىٰ حِينٍۢ
(…and provision for a time.")
Root متع — to provide provision, grant enjoyment or benefit · 70 times in the Quran
Root حين — time, period, appointed moment · 35 times in the Quran
وَمَتَـٰعٌword 17
Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix وَ at the front of وَمَتَـٰعٌ is a conjunction — a small joining word meaning 'and' — linking what follows to what came before; the word it joins in must stand in the same grammatical case as its partner before the joint — the same role in the sentence, even when the two words write that case with different endings. L4 · R4
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. مَتَٰعٌ names such a thing: 'and a provision', from the root متع: to provide provision, grant enjoyment or benefit. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. وَمَتَـٰعٌ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Indefinite Noun · نكرةAn indefinite noun means 'a' or 'any' one of something — no particular one — and it never wears the definite article ال ('the'); instead it shows this with tanwīn, a doubled end-vowel mark. مَتَٰعٌ carries the tanwīn ـٌ — the ḍammah ـُ doubled — marking it as unspecified: 'and a provision'. L2 · R8
Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter — doubled to tanwīn ـٌ when the word is indefinite. مَتَٰعٌ ends in that doubled ḍammah ـٌ, matching 'a place of settlement' it is joined to. L2 · R10
إِلَىٰword 18
Particle · حرفA particle is a small helper word of one to three letters that works like glue — it connects or adjusts other words rather than naming something or describing an action, and it can never be the one a sentence is about. إِلَىٰ · 'to/toward' is such a helper. L1 · R9
Preposition · حرف جرA preposition is a little helper word that relates one thing to another; Arabic keeps a short list of them — small words like فِي 'in', مِنْ 'from', and عَلَىٰ 'on'. إِلَىٰ · 'to/toward' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2
حِينٍۢword 19
Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. حِينٍ names such a thing: 'a period', from the root حين: time, period, appointed moment. L1 · R6
Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. حِينٍۢ carries no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — so it takes the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3
Indefinite Noun · نكرةAn indefinite noun means 'a' or 'any' one of something — no particular one — and it never wears the definite article ال ('the'); instead it shows this with tanwīn, a doubled end-vowel mark. حِينٍ carries the tanwīn ـٍ — the kasrah ـِ doubled — marking it as unspecified: 'a period'. L2 · R8
Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a naming word takes after a preposition, shown here by the doubled kasrah ـٍ below the last letter. حِينٍۢ carries it because إِلَىٰ 'until' stands before it. L2 · R12
Meaning dwelling, sustenance, and a limited life until the commencement of the Day of Resurrection; Ibn Abbas said Adam was sent down to an area called Dahna, between Makkah and At-Ta'if.
Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:36
So far: “But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time."”