Ghafir
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Ghafir · Ayah 82

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Translation

Do they not

Word Breakdown

أَفَلَمْ

Do they not

Word Breakdown

أHarf · Interrogative particle

Interrogative particle: introduces a question

?

فHarf · Supplemental particle

Supplementary particle: adds emphasis or rhetorical effect

then

لمْHarf · Negative particle

did not

Lemmaلَم

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Grammar Rules

Negation (not/no)
أَفَلَمْ (Do they not) is a negation word — it makes the next word negative, like "not" or "no".
We add "not" or "no" to negate what follows.
Question marker
أَفَلَمْ (Do they not) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.
We rearrange the English into question form.

Sahih International

Have they not traveled through the land and observed how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the land, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.

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