أنكرto deny

Example sentences

• فَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ قَدْ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَقَدْ أَنْكَرَ حَقِيقَةَ الرِّسَالَةِ

  So whoever denies that God has spoken the Quran has indeed denied the reality of the message.

  أَنْكَرَ — he denies. This is the condition-verb of the 'whoever' sentence. Although it has a past-tense shape, after the conditional word man it does not mean a finished past event; it reads as a general 'whoever denies', true of anyone at any time. Arabic routinely uses the past form for this timeless condition where English uses a plain present.

  From: Proofs of Scripture →

• فَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ قَدْ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَقَدْ أَنْكَرَ حَقِيقَةَ الرِّسَالَةِ

  So whoever denies that God has spoken the Quran has indeed denied the reality of the message.

  أَنْكَرَ — he denied. This repeats the denial verb, now as the answer to the condition. The repetition is the point: the form is the same completed-action verb, but its grammatical role has shifted from setting up the condition to delivering its inevitable consequence, the 'then he has denied' half of the if-then.

  From: Proofs of Scripture →