Al-A'raf
7:169

Al-A'raf · Ayah 169

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Translation

Then succeeded

Word Breakdown

فَخَلَفَ

Then succeeded

Word Breakdown

فَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes or continues discourse

then

خَلَفَFi'l · Verb
3rd personMasculineSingularPast
Rootخلف
Very common

to come after, succeed, replace; successor, opposition

Lemmaخَلَفَ

Verb (form I) - to succeed, to come after

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
فَخَلَفَ (Then succeeded) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Sahih International

And there followed them successors who inherited the Scripture [while] taking the commodities of this lower life and saying, "It will be forgiven for us." And if an offer like it comes to them, they will [again] take it. Was not the covenant of the Scripture [i.e., the Torah] taken from them that they would not say about Allāh except the truth, and they studied what was in it? And the home of the Hereafter is better for those who fear Allāh, so will you not use reason?

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