Ali 'Imran
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Ali 'Imran · Ayah 72

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Translation

And said

Word Breakdown

وَقَالَت

And said

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

قَالَتFi'l · Verb
3rd personFeminineSingularPast
Rootقول
Very common

to say, speak, tell

Lemmaقَالَ

Verb (form I) - to say

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
وَقَالَت (And said) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Sahih International

And a faction of the People of the Scripture say [to each other], "Believe in that which was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day and reject it at its end that perhaps they will return [i.e., abandon their religion],

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