لَئِنْif indeed

Example sentences

• ثم قال لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة

  Then he said: 'If I live until I eat my dates, it will indeed be a long life!'

  لَئِنْ — if. A combination that sets up a strong conditional oath: it bundles an emphatic 'truly' with 'if', priming the listener that a definite consequence will follow if the condition holds. Arabic often pairs this opener with an emphatic ending later in the sentence; English would convey it with 'if indeed...'.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

• لَئِنْ جَاءَتْهُمْ آيَةٌ لَيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهَا

  If a sign were to come to them, they would surely believe in it.

  لَئِنْ — if. This combines an oath-emphasis lead with an 'if', priming a solemn conditional: 'I swear, if...'. It tells the listener a heavily affirmed condition-and-consequence is coming, and it pairs with the emphatic verb later in the sentence.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• أَمَّا وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ مَنَعْتَنِي هَذَا لَأَمْنَعَنَّكَ مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ

  By God, if you prevent me from this, I will surely prevent you from something that will be harder on you than this.

  لَئِنْ — if. A real-condition 'if' carrying a hint of emphasis: it opens a genuine hypothetical whose outcome the oath then guarantees. It frames the whole 'if you do X, I will surely do Y' threat.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →

• فَقَعَدَتْ فَقَالَتْ وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ حَلَفْتُ لَا تُصَدِّقُونَنِي،

  She sat down and said, "By God, if I swear, you will not believe me."

  لَئِنْ — if. A conditional 'if' carrying extra emphatic weight from a built-in stress particle, setting up a vivid 'if I were to...'. It opens the condition whose result comes later ('you will not believe me'), and its emphatic flavour suits the oath just sworn before it.

  From: Aisha Cleared of Slander →

• فَقَالَ تَعَالَىٰ وَلَئِنْ صَبَرْتُمْ لَهْوُ خَيْرٌ لِلصَّابِرِينَ

  And Allah, the Most High, said, "If you are patient, that is better for the patient ones."

  وَلَئِنْ — and if. This stacks wa- 'and' with a conditional opener that, paired with an emphatic la-, sets up 'and if indeed...'. The particle frames the whole next clause as a supposition whose result follows later.

  From: Patience and God's Help →