Al-An'am
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Al-An'am · Ayah 138

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Translation

And they say

Word Breakdown

وَقَالُوا۟

And they say

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

قَالُFi'l · Verb
3rd personMasculinePluralPast
Rootقول
Very common

to say, speak, tell

Lemmaقَالَ

Verb (form I) - to say

وا۟Ism · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (3rd person masculine plural)

them/their

3rd personMasculinePlural

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
وَقَالُوا۟ (And they say) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Conjunction وَ (and)
وَقَالُوا۟ (And they say) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

Sahih International

And they say, "These animals and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them] and those upon which the name of Allāh is not mentioned - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him. He will punish them for what they were inventing.

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