Ali 'Imran
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Ali 'Imran · Ayah 165

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Translation

Or when

Word Breakdown

أَوَلَمَّآ

Or when

Word Breakdown

أَHarf · Interrogative particle

Interrogative particle: introduces a question

?

وَHarf · Supplemental particle

Supplementary particle: adds emphasis or rhetorical effect

and

لَمَّآIsm · Time adverb

Or when

Lemmaلَمَّا

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Grammar Rules

Question marker
أَوَلَمَّآ (Or when) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.
We rearrange the English into question form.

Sahih International

Why [is it that] when a [single] disaster struck you [on the day of Uḥud], although you had struck [the enemy in the battle of Badr] with one twice as great, you said, "From where is this?" Say, "It is from yourselves [i.e., due to your sin]." Indeed, Allāh is over all things competent.

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