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At-Tawbah · 9:70

Has there not reached them the news of those before them - the people of Noah and [the tribes of] ʿAad and Thamūd and the people of Abraham and the companions [i.e., dwellers] of Madyan and the towns overturned? Their messengers came to them with clear proofs. And Allāh would never have wronged them, but they were wronging themselves.

Sahih International

Word 1 of 26

أَلَمْ

alam

Has not

Word breakdown

أ

Harf · Interrogative particle

?

لمْ

Harf · Negative particle

did not

Grammar rules

Negation (not/no)

أَلَمْ (Has not) is a negation word — it makes the next word negative, like "not" or "no".

We add "not" or "no" to negate what follows.

Lesson 19 · Negation & Exceptions
Question marker

أَلَمْ (Has not) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition