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 Post subject: Verses 21:38-41
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 10:40 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 21:38-41
PostPosted: 23 Aug 2009, 21:35 
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{21:40} Rather, it will come to them unexpectedly and bewilder them, and they will not be able to repel it, nor will they be reprieved.

{21:41} And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

I love that translation :)

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 Post subject: Re: Verses 21:38-41
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{21:39} If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...

Is this a conditional? The verb does not have sokoon.

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 Post subject: Re: Verses 21:38-41
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{21:39} If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...

Is this a conditional? The verb does not have sokoon.

I went to my trusty grammar book and found that لو does not render the conditional verb jussive. Also learned that the response verb will be emphasized with a lam if the condition verb was past tense, but will be negated if the condition verb was present tense. Fascinating.

Examples: لو صلح إيمانه لصلح عمله and لو يجتهد التلميذ لم يرسب

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 Post subject: Re: Verses 21:38-41
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I went to my trusty grammar book and found that لو does not render the conditional verb jussive. Also learned that the response verb will be emphasized with a lam if the condition verb was past tense, but will be negated if the condition verb was present tense. Fascinating.

Examples: لو صلح إيمانه لصلح عمله and لو يجتهد التلميذ لم يرسب

F A S C I N A T I N G !!!

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 Post subject: Re: Verses 21:38-41
PostPosted: 27 Jul 2014, 07:23 
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Also learned that the response verb will be emphasized with a lam if the condition verb was past tense, but will be negated if the condition verb was present tense. Fascinating.

I'm now not sure that's a hard and fast rule, because

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