Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

Sad · 38:6

And the eminent among them went forth, [saying], "Continue, and be patient over [the defense of] your gods. Indeed, this is a thing intended.

Sahih International

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وَٱنطَلَقَ

wa-inṭalaqa

And went forth

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

انطلق

Fi'l · Verb

And went forth

RootطلقTlq

to release, set free, divorce, set out

23× in the Quran · Rare

LemmaٱنطَلَقَVerb (form VII) - to set out, to proceeed, to go forth

Past tense verb

وَٱنطَلَقَ (And went forth) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Verb form VII — passive/reflexive

وَٱنطَلَقَ (And went forth) uses form VII (إِنْفَعَلَ) — it's the passive or reflexive of the basic form.

We translate it as "to be [done]" or "to [verb] itself".

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَٱنطَلَقَ (And went forth) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.