Al-A'raf
7:96

Al-A'raf · Ayah 96

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Translation

And if

Word Breakdown

وَلَوْ

And if

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

لَوْHarf · Conditional particle

if (hypothetical)

Lemmaلَو

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Grammar Rules

Conditional (if/when)
وَلَوْ (And if) introduces a condition — "if this happens, then that happens".
We translate it as "if" or "when".

Sahih International

And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allāh, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.

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