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Al-Baqarah · 2:74

Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allāh. And Allāh is not unaware of what you do.

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Grammar, phrase by phrase

ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُم

(Then your hearts became hardened)

Root قسو — to be hard, to be harsh, hardness of heart · 7 times in the Quran

Root قلب — heart; to turn, overturn, return · 168 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

ثُمَّword 1

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. ثُمَّ · 'then' is such a helper. L1 · R9

Conjunction · حرف عطفA conjunction is a particle that joins words or sentences, and ثُمَّ means 'then' — the next thing after a gap. THEN, after all that, your hearts hardened. L4 · R4

قَسَتْword 2

Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. قَسَتْ speaks of an action already carried out: 'hardened', from the root قسو: to be hard, to be harsh, hardness of heart. L1 · R7

Past Tense Verb · فعل ماضٍA past tense verb describes what already happened, and who did it is shown by an ending added to the verb. The ending تْ — the 'she' marker, capped with the sukūn ـْ, the small circle meaning its sound stops there — sits on قَسَتْ: 'it hardened', speaking of the hearts as 'she'. 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 قَسَتْ is قسو: to be hard, to be harsh, hardness of heart — and its last letter is the weak و, so the weakness sits at the very end of the root. L24 · R7

قُلُوبُكُمword 3

Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. قُلُوبُ names such a thing: 'your hearts', from the root قلب: heart; to turn, overturn, return. L1 · R6

Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she'. قُلُوبُ is a plural built by reshaping its word from the inside rather than by adding an ending, and it wears no feminine marker — no ة at its end, no final ى, no اء — yet Arabic treats it as feminine: 'your hearts'. L2 · R2

Plural Noun · جمعA plural noun refers to three or more, made either by adding an ending or by reshaping the word from the inside — a 'broken' plural. قُلُوب is the broken plural of قَلْب 'heart', reshaped from within to mean 'hearts'. L2 · 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. قُلُوبُ carries exactly that ḍammah ـُ on its ب. L2 · R10

Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action in a verb-first sentence, standing in the nominative — shown here by the ḍammah ـُ, the small curl on the ب of قُلُوبُ. The hearts are what did the hardening. L9 · R2

Attached Pronoun · ضمير متصلAn attached pronoun is a mini-word glued onto the end of another word; attached to a naming word, it shows possession. The ending كُم on قُلُوبُكُم stands for 'your': YOUR hearts. L3 · R6

Possessive (Idafa) · مضاف إليهA possessive (iḍāfah) chains two naming words into an 'of' phrase, and the owner comes second, taking the genitive — the owner's ending, usually a kasrah ـِ, a small stroke below the last letter. The ending كُم fills that owner slot: 'the hearts OF you'; a pronoun keeps one fixed written shape, so the genitive is the role it fills. L5 · R5

Significance — from the tafsir

Allah criticized the Children of Israel because they witnessed the tremendous signs of Allah, including bringing the dead back to life, yet after that their hearts were hardened.

Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:74

مِّنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ

(…after that,)

Root بعد — after, distance, remoteness · 235 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

مِّنۢword 4

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. مِّنۢ · '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'. مِّنۢ · 'from/of' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2

بَعْدِword 5

Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. بَعْدِ names such a thing: 'after', from the root بعد: after, distance, remoteness. L1 · R6

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. بَعْدِ stands right after such a little word, so its final letter carries exactly that kasrah ـِ: بَعْدِ. L2 · R12

ذَٰلِكَword 6

Demonstrative Pronoun · اسم إشارةA demonstrative pronoun is a pointing word that singles out a specific thing, near or far, and ذَٰلِكَ is the far pointing word: 'that' — all that they had witnessed. L3 · R8

Possessive (Idafa) · مضاف إليهA possessive (iḍāfah) chains two words into an 'of' phrase, and the owner comes second, taking the genitive — the owner's ending, usually a kasrah ـِ, a small stroke below the last letter. ذَٰلِكَ fills that owner slot after بَعْدِ: 'after OF-that'; a pointing word keeps one fixed written shape, so the genitive is the role it fills. L5 · R5

فَهِىَ كَٱلْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةًۭ ۚ

(…being like stones or even harder.)

Root حجر — stone; to forbid, prevent; barrier, partition; mind · 21 times in the Quran

Root شدد — terrible, severe and strong · 102 times in the Quran

Root قسو — to be hard, to be harsh, hardness of heart · 7 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

فَهِىَword 7

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 فَهِىَ opens such a fresh start. L14 · R1

Detached Pronoun · ضمير منفصلA detached pronoun is a standalone word for 'I/you/he/she/they'. هِىَ is the 'she' of that set, standing here for 'they' — the hearts, spoken of as 'she'. L3 · R2

Subject (Mubtada') · مبتدأThe subject is the word a sentence opens by talking about — its topic — standing in the nominative, the topic's form, usually shown by a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. هِىَ 'they' is that topic; a pronoun keeps one fixed written shape, so the nominative is the role it fills. L6 · R2

كَٱلْحِجَارَةِword 8

Preposition · حرف جرThe small prefix كَ at the front of كَٱلْحِجَارَةِ is a preposition — a little helper word meaning 'like/as' that relates one thing to another. A preposition 'pulls' the naming word after it into the genitive, the ending marked by a kasrah ـِ — a small slanted stroke written below the letter — and كَٱلْحِجَارَةِ ends with exactly that kasrah ـِ. L4 · R1

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): كَٱلْحِجَارَةِ. L2 · R9

Noun · اسمA word that accepts ال — the prefix meaning 'the' — is a noun, a naming word. حِجَارَةِ names stones, from the root حجر — stone. L1 · R1

Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she', most often marked by a ة — the round 'tied tā' — at its end. حِجَارَةِ carries exactly that round ة at its end, so it is treated as feminine: '(became) like [the] stones'. L2 · R1

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. حِجَارَةِ stands right after such a little word, so its final letter carries exactly that kasrah ـِ: كَٱلْحِجَارَةِ. L2 · R12

أَوْword 9

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. أَوْ · 'or' is such a helper. L1 · R9

Conjunction · حرف عطفA conjunction is a particle that joins words or sentences, and أَوْ means 'or'. It joins the two likenesses: like stones — OR harder still. L4 · R4

أَشَدُّword 10

Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. أَشَدُّ names such a thing: 'stronger', from the root شدد: terrible, severe and strong. L1 · R6

Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. أَشَدُّ 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

Singular Noun · مفردA singular noun refers to one, showing its case with a single short vowel mark. أَشَدُّ is one word of degree — 'stronger' — carrying the single ḍammah ـُ, the small curl, on its doubled د. L2 · R4

Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending a naming word takes as the subject or predicate of a sentence, shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter. أَشَدُّ ends in exactly that ḍammah ـُ. L2 · R10

Predicate (Khabar) · خبرThe predicate is the part that completes the meaning about the topic — Arabic implies the 'are' without writing it — and it stands in the nominative, shown here by the ḍammah ـُ, the small curl on the doubled د of أَشَدُّ. It is the second thing said about the hearts: they are like stones, or 'harder'. L6 · R3

قَسْوَةًۭ ۚword 11

Noun · اسمA word that accepts tanwīn — the doubled end-vowel mark ـً — is a noun, a naming word. قَسْوَةً names hardness itself, from the root قسو: to be hard, to be harsh, hardness of heart. L1 · R2

Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she', most often marked by a ة — the round 'tied tā' — at its end. قَسْوَةً carries exactly that round ة at its end, so it is treated as feminine: '(in) hardness'. L2 · R1

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. قَسْوَةً carries the tanwīn ـً — the fathah ـَ doubled — marking it as unspecified: '(in) hardness'. L2 · R8

Accusative · منصوبThe accusative is an ending shown by a fathah ـَ — a small slanted stroke above the last letter — doubled here to the tanwīn ـً. قَسْوَةً ends in exactly that doubled fathah ـً on its ة. L2 · R11

Specification (Tamyīz) · التمييزA specification is an indefinite naming word in the accusative — the fathah-tanwīn ـً ending — added to pin down in what respect a vague statement holds, and it appears after comparing words exactly like this: أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً, 'stronger — IN HARDNESS'. Without it, 'stronger' would leave us asking: stronger in what? L21 · R13

Significance — from the tafsir

Their hearts were like stones that never become soft. The scholars agree 'or' here does not reflect doubt: some said it means 'and harder', some 'rather, harder', and some that their hearts are of two types — some as hard as stone and some harder — the view Ibn Jarir favored.

Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:74

So far: “Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder.”

وَإِنَّ مِنَ ٱلْحِجَارَةِ لَمَا

(For indeed, there are among the stones some)

Root حجر — stone; to forbid, prevent; barrier, partition; mind · 21 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

وَإِنَّword 12

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 وَإِنَّ opens such a fresh start. L14 · R1

Accusative Particle (إنّ) · حرف مشبه بالفعلإِنَّ adds emphasis — 'indeed' — and changes the topic it introduces from the nominative to the accusative, the pressed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small slanted stroke above the last letter. إِنَّ carries its doubling shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped mark — and its topic here is the coming 'that which': indeed some stones truly gush with rivers. L15 · R2

مِنَword 13

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. مِنَ · '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'. مِنَ · 'from/of' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2

ٱلْحِجَارَةِword 14

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): ٱلْحِجَارَةِ. L2 · R9

Noun · اسمA word that accepts ال — the prefix meaning 'the' — is a noun, a naming word. حِجَارَةِ names stones, from the root حجر — stone. L1 · R1

Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she', most often marked by a ة — the round 'tied tā' — at its end. حِجَارَةِ carries exactly that round ة at its end, so it is treated as feminine: 'the stones'. L2 · R1

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. حِجَارَةِ stands right after such a little word, so its final letter carries exactly that kasrah ـِ: ٱلْحِجَارَةِ. L2 · R12

لَمَاword 15

Emphatic Lām & Nūn · لام التوكيد ونون التوكيدThe emphatic لَـ at the front of a word presses down on the statement to say it is really, surely true, changing no ending. The لَ opening لَمَا seals the assertion: there truly ARE such stones. L20 · R14

Relative Pronoun · اسم موصولA relative pronoun is a word that hooks a whole describing sentence onto its meaning. مَا · 'certainly (there are some) which' 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

يَتَفَجَّرُ مِنْهُ ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ۚ

(…from which rivers burst forth,)

Root فجر — to split open, burst forth, dawn; wickedness · 24 times in the Quran

Root نهر — to flow, river; day · 113 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

يَتَفَجَّرُword 16

Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. يَتَفَجَّرُ is an action unfolding now: 'gush forth', from the root فجر: to split open, burst forth, dawn; wickedness. L1 · R7

Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present-tense verb describes an action happening now or still to come, and it is recognized by its opening letter — one of the four present-tense prefixes أ ن ي ت. يَتَفَجَّرُ opens with exactly such a letter: 'gush forth', from the root فجر: to split open, burst forth, dawn; wickedness. L8 · R3

Form V Verb · تَفَعَّلَA Form V verb is identified by a تَـ prefix combined with a doubled middle root letter. يَتَفَجَّرُ shows both marks after its opening يَ: the تَ, and the shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped doubling mark — on the ج, the middle letter of the root فجر. The ones doing the bursting forth are ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ, the rivers — this verb's own doer — gushing out from such stones. L13 · R1

مِنْهُword 17

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. مِنْ · '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'. مِنْ · 'from/of' 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. هُ · 'him/his' hangs on the little relation-word in مِنْهُ, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6

ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ۚword 18

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): ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ. L2 · R9

Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. أَنْهَٰرُ names such a thing: '[the] rivers', from the root نهر: to flow, river; day. L1 · R6

Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ 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

Plural Noun · جمعA plural noun refers to three or more, made either by adding an ending or by reshaping the word from the inside — a 'broken' plural. أَنْهَٰرُ is such a reshaped plural of نَهَر 'river': 'rivers'. L2 · 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. أَنْهَٰرُ ends in exactly that ḍammah ـُ. L2 · R10

Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, standing in the nominative — shown here by the ḍammah ـُ, the small curl on the ر of أَنْهَٰرُ. The rivers are what gush forth. L9 · R2

وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا يَشَّقَّقُ

(…and there are some of them that split open)

Root شقق — to split, cleave; to oppose, dissent · 28 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

وَإِنَّword 19

Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix وَ at the front of وَإِنَّ 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

Accusative Particle (إنّ) · حرف مشبه بالفعلإِنَّ adds emphasis — 'indeed' — and changes the topic it introduces from the nominative to the accusative, the pressed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small slanted stroke above the last letter. إِنَّ carries its doubling shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped mark — and its topic here is the coming 'that which': indeed some of them truly split. L15 · R2

مِنْهَاword 20

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. مِنْ · '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'. مِنْ · 'from/of' 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 مِنْهَا, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6

لَمَاword 21

Emphatic Lām & Nūn · لام التوكيد ونون التوكيدThe emphatic لَـ at the front of a word presses down on the statement to say it is really, surely true, changing no ending. The لَ opening لَمَا seals the assertion: there truly ARE such stones. L20 · R14

Relative Pronoun · اسم موصولA relative pronoun is a word that hooks a whole describing sentence onto its meaning. مَا · 'certainly (there are some) which' 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

يَشَّقَّقُword 22

Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. يَشَّقَّقُ is an action unfolding now: 'split', from the root شقق: to split, cleave; to oppose, dissent. L1 · R7

Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present-tense verb describes an action happening now or still to come, and it is recognized by its opening letter — one of the four present-tense prefixes أ ن ي ت. يَشَّقَّقُ opens with exactly such a letter: 'split', from the root شقق: to split, cleave; to oppose, dissent. L8 · R3

Doubled Verb · فعل مضاعفA doubled verb is one whose second and third root letters are the same letter, written once with the doubling shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped mark. The root شقق repeats its ق — and here both twin ق's are written out one after the other; the shaddah ـّ you see on the middle ق belongs to the تَفَعَّلَ pattern's doubling, not to the root's twin letters. L24 · R10

Form V Verb · تَفَعَّلَA Form V verb carries a تَـ prefix and a doubled middle root letter — and in the present tense that تَـ may merge into the letter after it, shown by a shaddah ـّ, the small w-shaped doubling mark. That is exactly what يَشَّقَّقُ shows: the shaddah on its ش holds the form's merged تَ, and the shaddah on the ق doubles the middle root letter — the splitting happens to the stone itself. L13 · R1

فَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ ٱلْمَآءُ ۚ

(…and water comes out,)

Root خرج — to go out, bring forth · 182 times in the Quran

Root موه — water · 63 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

فَيَخْرُجُword 23

Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix فَ at the front of فَيَخْرُجُ 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. يَخْرُجُ is an action unfolding now: 'so comes out', from the root خرج: to go out, bring forth. L1 · R7

Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present-tense verb describes an action happening now or still to come, and it is recognized by its opening letter — one of the four present-tense prefixes أ ن ي ت. يَخْرُجُ opens with exactly such a letter: 'so comes out', from the root خرج: to go out, bring forth. L8 · R3

مِنْهُword 24

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. مِنْ · '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'. مِنْ · 'from/of' 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. هُ · 'him/his' hangs on the little relation-word in مِنْهُ, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6

ٱلْمَآءُ ۚword 25

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): ٱلْمَآءُ. L2 · R9

Noun · اسمA word that accepts ال — the prefix meaning 'the' — is a noun, a naming word. مَآءُ names water, from the root موه — water. L1 · R1

Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every naming word as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. This word carries no feminine marker such as a ة at its end, so it falls to the default and is treated as 'he': a masculine noun. L2 · R3

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. مَآءُ ends in exactly that ḍammah ـُ on its closing hamza. L2 · R10

Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, standing in the nominative — shown here by the ḍammah ـُ, the small curl on the last letter of مَآءُ. The water is what comes out. L9 · R2

وَإِنَّ مِنْهَا لَمَا يَهْبِطُ

(…and there are some of them that fall down)

Root هبط — to descend, fall, to cause to come down · 8 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

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Conjunction · حرف عطفThe prefix وَ at the front of وَإِنَّ 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

Accusative Particle (إنّ) · حرف مشبه بالفعلإِنَّ adds emphasis — 'indeed' — and changes the topic it introduces from the nominative to the accusative, the pressed-on form, usually a fathah ـَ, a small slanted stroke above the last letter. إِنَّ carries its doubling shaddah ـّ — the small w-shaped mark — and its topic here is the coming 'that which': indeed some of them truly fall down. L15 · R2

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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. مِنْ · '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'. مِنْ · 'from/of' 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 مِنْهَا, governed by the word it is fastened to. L3 · R6

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Emphatic Lām & Nūn · لام التوكيد ونون التوكيدThe emphatic لَـ at the front of a word presses down on the statement to say it is really, surely true, changing no ending. The لَ opening لَمَا seals the assertion: there truly ARE such stones. L20 · R14

Relative Pronoun · اسم موصولA relative pronoun is a word that hooks a whole describing sentence onto its meaning. مَا · 'certainly (there are some) which' 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

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Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. يَهْبِطُ is an action unfolding now: 'fall down', from the root هبط: to descend, fall, to cause to come down. L1 · R7

Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present-tense verb describes an action happening now or still to come, and it is recognized by its opening letter — one of the four present-tense prefixes أ ن ي ت. يَهْبِطُ opens with exactly such a letter: 'fall down', from the root هبط: to descend, fall, to cause to come down. L8 · R3

مِنْ خَشْيَةِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ

(…for fear of Allāh.)

Root خشي — to fear reverentially, be in awe of · 48 times in the Quran

Root اله — god · 2,851 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

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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. مِنْ · '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'. مِنْ · 'from/of' is one of these relation-words. L4 · R2

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Noun · اسمA word ending with the ة — Tā Marbūtah — is a noun, a naming word. خَشْيَةِ names fear, from the root خشي — to fear reverentially, be in awe of. L1 · R3

Feminine Noun · اسم مؤنثA feminine noun is a naming word Arabic treats as grammatically 'she', most often marked by a ة — the round 'tied tā' — at its end. خَشْيَةِ carries exactly that round ة at its end, so it is treated as feminine: 'fear'. L2 · R1

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. خَشْيَةِ stands right after such a little word, so its final letter carries exactly that kasrah ـِ: خَشْيَةِ. L2 · R12

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Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea — and in Arabic this includes proper names. ٱللَّهِ is a proper name: '(of) Allah'. L1 · R6

Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a noun (a naming word) takes as the owner in an 'of' phrase, marked by a kasrah ـِ — a small slanted stroke written below the final letter. خَشْيَةِ and ٱللَّهِ form such a pair, 'fear (of) Allah', and as the owner-word of that pair, ٱللَّهِ ends with exactly that kasrah ـِ. L2 · R12

Possessive (Idafa) · مضاف إليهArabic says 'of' by chaining two nouns — two naming words — directly together: خَشْيَةِ ٱللَّهِ reads 'fear — (of) Allah'. The second word of such a chain, the owner, always takes the genitive — the after-'of' ending, shown by a kasrah ـِ, a small slanted stroke written below the letter — and ٱللَّهِ ends with exactly that kasrah ـِ. L5 · R5

Significance — from the tafsir

Ibn 'Abbas said of these stones — out of which rivers gush, which split so water flows, which fall down for fear of Allah — "Some stones are softer than your hearts; they acknowledge the truth that you are being called to."

Ibn Kathir (abridged), on 2:74

So far: “Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allāh.”

وَمَا ٱللَّهُ بِغَـٰفِلٍ

(And Allāh is not unaware)

Root اله — god · 2,851 times in the Quran

Root غفل — to be heedless, negligent, inattentive · 35 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

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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 وَمَا opens such a fresh start. L14 · R1

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. مَا · 'not/what' is such a helper. L1 · R9

Negation Particle · حرف نفيA negation particle flips a statement to its opposite, and مَا is the one that negates sentences opening with a naming word. Here it denies any unawareness: Allah is NOT unaware. L4 · R5

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Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea — and in Arabic this includes proper names. ٱللَّهُ is a proper name: '(is) Allah'. L1 · R6

Nominative · مرفوعThe nominative is the ending a naming word takes as the subject or main topic of its sentence, shown by a ḍammah ـُ — a small curl above the last letter. ٱللَّهُ ends in exactly that ḍammah ـُ. L2 · R10

Ḥijāzī Mā · ما الحجازيةThe Ḥijāzī مَا is the negation مَا acting like 'is not': it keeps its topic in the nominative — the topic's form, the ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter — and marks its completing part with an extra بِ. ٱللَّهُ is that topic, wearing its ḍammah ـُ, and the بِ appears on بِغَٰفِلٍ right after: 'Allah is NOT unaware'. L19 · R13

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Preposition · حرف جرThe small prefix بِ at the front of بِغَـٰفِلٍ is a preposition — a little helper word meaning 'in/with' 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

Ḥijāzī Mā · ما الحجازيةThe Ḥijāzī مَا is the negation مَا acting like 'is not', and one of its signatures is marking the completing part with an extra بِ. This بِ on بِغَٰفِلٍ is exactly that mark: 'Allah is not IN ANY WAY unaware'. L19 · R13

Noun · اسمA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. غَٰفِلٍ names such a thing: 'unaware', from the root غفل: to be heedless, negligent, inattentive. L1 · R6

Masculine Noun · اسم مذكرArabic treats every noun — every naming word — as grammatically 'he' or 'she'. بِغَـٰفِلٍ 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. غَٰفِلٍ carries the tanwīn ـٍ — the kasrah ـِ doubled — marking it as unspecified: 'unaware'. L2 · R8

Genitive · مجرورThe genitive is the ending a naming word takes after a preposition, shown by a kasrah ـِ — a small stroke below the last letter — doubled here to the tanwīn ـٍ. غَٰفِلٍ ends in exactly that doubled kasrah ـٍ, pulled into it by the بِ at its front. L2 · R12

Active Participle · اسم فاعلAn active participle is a naming word built from a verb's root, on the pattern فَاعِل, to name the doer of the action. غَٰفِلٍ is on exactly that pattern — its first root letter followed by a long ā, then a kasrah ـِ, the small stroke below the ف — naming 'one who is heedless'; and Allah is declared to be no such one. L11 · R1

عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ

(…of what you do.)

Root عمل — to work, do, perform, act, construct · 360 times in the Quran

Grammar — lesson evidence

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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. عَ · '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'. عَ · 'from/about' 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 · 'of 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

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Verb · فعلA verb is a word for an action or happening that is always tied to a time — past, present/future, or a command. تَعْمَلُ is an action unfolding now: 'you do', from the root عمل: to work, do, perform, act, construct. L1 · R7

Present Tense Verb · فعل مضارعA present-tense verb describes an action happening now or still to come, and it is recognized by its opening letter — one of the four present-tense prefixes أ ن ي ت. تَعْمَلُ opens with exactly such a letter: 'you do', from the root عمل: to work, do, perform, act, construct. L8 · R3

The Five Verbs · الأفعال الخمسةThe Five Verbs are the five present-tense shapes whose ending closes with the letter ن — يَفْعَلَانِ, تَفْعَلَانِ, يَفْعَلُونَ, تَفْعَلُونَ, تَفْعَلِينَ. تَعْمَلُونَ is one of them: its ending ونَ keeps that closing ن, and for these five shapes the kept ن is itself the grammar-sign that the verb stands in its plain, ordinary mood. L10 · R10

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. ونَ · 'you all/your' is fastened to the tail of the verb here — تَعْمَلُونَ — naming the one who did the action. L3 · R6

Doer (Fa'il) · فاعلThe doer is the one performing the action, standing in the nominative — the doer's form, usually a ḍammah ـُ, a small curl above the last letter. The ending ونَ is that doer, 'you all'; a pronoun keeps one fixed shape, so no ḍammah appears — the nominative is the role it fills. L9 · R4

So far: “Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allāh. And Allāh is not unaware of what you do.”