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Ash-Shams · 91:5

And [by] the sky and He who constructed it

Sahih International

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وَٱلسَّمَآءِ

wal-samāi

And the heaven

Word breakdown

وَ

Harf · Conjunction

and

ٱل

Harf · Determiner

the

سَّمَآءِ

Ism · Noun

And the heaven

Rootسموsmw

to be high, elevated; name; sky, heaven

381× in the Quran · Very common

LemmaسَمَآءNoun

Grammar rules

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ (And the heaven) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

Lesson 4 · Particles