Al-Anfal
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Al-Anfal · Ayah 34

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Translation

But what

Word Breakdown

وَمَا

But what

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

مَاHarf · Interrogative particle

what?

Lemmaمَا

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Grammar Rules

Question marker
وَمَا (But what) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.
We rearrange the English into question form.

Sahih International

But why should Allāh not punish them while they obstruct [people] from al-Masjid al-Ḥarām and they were not [fit to be] its guardians? Its [true] guardians are not but the righteous, but most of them do not know.

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