Verses 21:38-41

Index · **Joined:** 08 May 2009, 14:16 **Posts:** 1994

Suggested translation^1,2:

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Linguistic · **Posted:** 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

Pragmatic · **Posted:** 14 Jul 2014, 10:29

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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.

Linguistic · **Posted:** 14 Jul 2014, 23:12

Pragmatic wrote:

Quote:

{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

Pragmatic · **Posted:** 15 Jul 2014, 10:02

Linguistic wrote:

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 !!!

You live and learn.

Linguistic · **Posted:** 27 Jul 2014, 07:23

Linguistic wrote:

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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