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Al-Anfal · 8:34

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.

Sahih International

Word 1 of 21

وَمَا

wamā

But what

Word breakdown

وَ

Harf · Resumption particle

and

مَا

Harf · Interrogative particle

what?

Grammar rules

Question marker

وَمَا (But what) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition