أَنَّهُمْthat they

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُمْ سيمنعونه

  And that they would protect him.

  وَأَنَّهُمْ — and that they. 'And' plus the heavy 'that' (anna) with '-hum' (they) attached — a second 'that'-clause parallel to the first, its subject the attached pronoun. It adds what else Quraysh realized.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فَانْفَرَجَتْ الصَّخْرَةُ غَيْرُ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ الْخُرُوجَ مِنْهَا

  The rock split open, but they could not get out of it.

  أَنَّهُمْ — that they. An emphatic 'that' particle fused to a 'they' pronoun, packaging a whole clause as a fact and underlining it. It forces that attached pronoun into the object-like slot and introduces the statement being asserted, the way English 'that they...' opens a reported fact.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• وَأَنَّهُمْ هُمْ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقًا،

  And that they are those on whom Allah has bestowed favor: the Prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. Those are excellent companions.

  وَأَنَّهُمْ — and that they are. This packs three pieces into one word: the linking wa- ('and'), the heavy particle anna ('that'), and the attached -hum ('they'). Anna is the strong form of 'that' used to open a firmly-asserted reported clause, and it grabs the following pronoun as the subject of what is being claimed. So the word both joins this statement to the previous one and frames everything after it as a stated certainty about 'them'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →