Al-A'raf
7:163

Al-A'raf · Ayah 163

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Translation

And ask them

Word Breakdown

وَسْـَٔلْهُمْ

And ask them

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

سْـَٔلْFi'l · Verb
2nd personMasculineSingularImperative
Rootسال
Very common

to ask, demand, question

Lemmaسَأَلَ

Verb (form I) - to ask

هُمْIsm · Personal pronoun

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

them/their

3rd personMasculinePlural

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Grammar Rules

Command verb
وَسْـَٔلْهُمْ (And ask them) is a command — it's telling someone to do something.
We translate it as a direct command — "[Do this]!"

Sahih International

And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.

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