If, when and will not
The words of the Qur’ān for "if" and "when", which tell apart what happened, what will happen and what never did, and lan, "will not".
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- Words of the Qur’ān known whole
- 48.3%
- Parts of the Qur’ān’s words taught so far
- 68.7%
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English has one "if" and one "when". Arabic has several, and each says something about time: whether a thing has happened, will happen, or did not happen at all. Lesson 4 taught in, "if", and lesson 8 idhā, "when", most often of what is to come. This lesson teaches the others.
The new words
- لَوAs the Qur’ān writes it: لَوْ · لَّوْ · لَوِ
if (of what did not or will not happen)
Times in the Qur’ān: 201
- لَوْلَآAs the Qur’ān writes it: لَوْلَا · لَوْلَآ · لَّوْلَا
if it were not for; why not
Times in the Qur’ān: 75
- إِذAs the Qur’ān writes it: إِذْ · إِذِ · إِذ
when (of what has happened)
Times in the Qur’ān: 239
- لَمَّاAs the Qur’ān writes it: لَمَّا · لَمَّآ · لَّمَّا
when (once it had happened)
Times in the Qur’ān: 156
- يَوْمَئِذAs the Qur’ān writes it: يَوْمَئِذٍ · يَوْمَئِذٍۭ · يَوْمِئِذٍ
on that day
Times in the Qur’ān: 70
- لَنAs the Qur’ān writes it: لَن · لَّن · لَنْ
will not (before a present verb)
Times in the Qur’ān: 106
If it were so
Law is "if", of what is not so, or of what did not happen.
- لَوْif (of what did not or will not happen)
The corpus marks law as a word of condition.
Lawlā is law with lā: "if it were not for", and, before a verb, "why not?".
When it happened
Idh is "when", of what has happened.
- إِذْwhen (of what has happened)
The corpus marks idh as a word of time. Lammā before a past verb is also "when", once a thing had happened. Before a present verb, lammā is "not yet"; the corpus most often counts that lammā with lam, from lesson 4, and not as this word.
On that day
- يَوْمَئِذٍon that day
Yawmaʾidhin is yawma, "on the day", from lesson 9, with idh, which takes -in here, written as one word with it: "on that day". The corpus keeps it as one word of time.
Will not
Lan stands before a verb in its present form and denies the future: "will not". The verb after it ends in a, the subjunctive; a verb that ends in -ūna loses its -na.
- لَّنwill not (before a present verb)
In a sentence
I will not go.
This sentence was written for practice. Lan adhhaba: "I will not go". Adhhabu, "I go", ends in a after lan.
Reading
The words you know whole after this lesson are marked.
To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth, and indeed it is Allah Who is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
English Translation - Rowwad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.20When it is said to them, “Do not spread corruption in the land,” they say, “We are only reformers.”
English Translation - Rowwad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.20It was already said by those before them[1], but all what they earned was of no avail to them,
English Translation - Rowwad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.20Recall
- Which "when" is for what has happened?
- What does lan deny?
- What is yawmaʾidhin made of?
Answers: idh; the future, "will not"; yawma, "on the day", and idh.
Next
The next lesson teaches how a question is asked, bal, "rather", and the words that work like inna.
Word analysis: Quranic Arabic Corpus 0.4 (Kais Dukes)