وَاِخْتَلَفُواand they differed

Example sentences

• وَاِخْتَلَفُوا فِي الْعَقَائِدِ وَالْأَفْعَالِ اِخْتِلَافًا

  And they differed greatly in beliefs and in actions.

  وَاِخْتَلَفُوا — and they differed. A sentence-starting wa- 'and' fused to a past verb in a derived 'differ-among-themselves' pattern shaped for 'they'. The wa- joins the clause on; the plural 'they' lives in the verb's ending. It states a further action of the group.

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