لَمnot

Example sentences

• وَمَنْ أَبَطْأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُ

  And whoever is slowed by his deeds will not be hastened forward by his lineage.

  لَمْ — will not. This small word does two jobs at once: it turns the present-tense verb after it into a negated past ('did not'), and it clips that verb's ending to a bare stop. So the verb ahead looks present but means 'will not / did not'.

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