Quran 25:45: The Last Testament

Did you not see to your Lord how He casts the shadow? If He wished, He could have made it still, then We would have made the sun as a guide to it.

25:45Verse 2923 of 6,346

Translation

English · QRT translation

اَلَمْ

alam

Do you not

General Arabic dictionary

Corpus form لم. Dictionary lookup may use a verified citation form when the corpus form is inflected.

Meaning in this ayah

Do you not

Letter-by-letter reading

اَaaلَlaمْm

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ROOTNot applicable

WHAT THIS ISA negative word with one attached part

What this word is doing

“أَ” (ʾaa)This word asks a question, like “is?” or “do?”Corpus grammarINTG — prefixed intg particle.

“لَمْ” (lam)This means “not.” It makes the part that follows negative — here, it excludes the group or action named after it.Corpus grammarNEG — negative particle.