وإذاand if

Example sentences

• وإذا كانوا يقولون الوقت الحاضر والساعة الراهنة وإن لم يفعلا ذلك فكيف يمتنع أن يقولوا ماء دافق وعيشة راضية

  And if they say 'the present time' and 'the current hour' without those phrases acting, how could they refrain from saying 'gushing water' and 'contented life'?

  وَإِذَا — And if. wa- (and) fused with the condition-and-time word 'if/when', opening a long conditional whose answer is the rhetorical question later. It sets up 'and if they say X... then how could they refuse Y'.

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