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Fatir · 35:27

Do you not see that Allāh sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby fruits of varying colors? And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black.

Sahih International

Word 1 of 22

أَلَمْ

alam

Do not

Word breakdown

أ

Harf · Interrogative particle

?

لمْ

Harf · Negative particle

did not

Grammar rules

Negation (not/no)

أَلَمْ (Do not) is a negation word — it makes the next word negative, like "not" or "no".

We add "not" or "no" to negate what follows.

Lesson 19 · Negation & Exceptions
Question marker

أَلَمْ (Do not) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition