عَبَدْنَاهُمْwe worshiped them

Example sentences

• وَقَالُوا ﴿لَوْ شَاءَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ مَا عَبَدْنَاهُمْ﴾

  And they said, "If the Most Merciful had willed, we would not have worshiped them."

  عَبَدْنَاهُمْ — we worshiped them. This single word packs a past verb, a 'we' subject, and a tail -hum, 'them', as object, 'we worshipped them'. Negated within the counterfactual, it names the deed that supposedly would not have occurred had the Merciful willed otherwise.

  From: Patience Under Decree →