Hafiz soon
Ya-Sin · 36:13
And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it -
Sahih International
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وَٱضْرِبْ
wa-iḍ'rib
And set forth
Word breakdown
و
Harf · Conjunctionand
اضْربْ
Fi'l · VerbAnd set forth
RootضربDrb
to strike, set forth (examples), travel
58× in the Quran · Occasional
LemmaضَرَبَVerb (form I) - to strike, to set forth
Grammar rules
Command verb
وَٱضْرِبْ (And set forth) is a command — it's telling someone to do something.
We translate it as a direct command — "[Do this]!"
Lesson 10 · Commands & FutureConjunction وَ (and)
وَٱضْرِبْ (And set forth) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Lesson 4 · Particles