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Al-A'raf · Ayah 145

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Translation

And We ordained (laws)

Word Breakdown

وَكَتَبْنَا

And We ordained (laws)

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

L4 Particles

كَتَبْFi'l · Verb

1st personPluralPast

Rootكتب

★★★★Very common

to write, prescribe, decree; book, scripture

Lemmaكَتَبَ

Verb (form I) - to write, to prescribe, to ordain

L1 Arabic Word TypesL8 Verbs — Past & Present

نَاIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (1st person plural)

us/our

1st personPlural

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb

وَكَتَبْنَا (And We ordained (laws)) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

L8 Verbs — Past & Present

Sahih International

And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], "Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient."

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