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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: ((Indeed, thus We do to the criminals)).

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Allah the Exalted said:
Indeed, thus إنا كذلك
just as We do to these
We do to the criminals نفعل بالمجرمين
. The grammatical analysis of this sentence is that "Inna" is the particle and its subject, and the clause "We do" is its predicate. "Kadhalika" (thus) is a noun meaning "like that," and it is in the accusative case as an absolute object. This means that We do an action like that action to the criminals. This construction occurs frequently in the Qur'an, but its grammatical analysis, as I mentioned, is to treat the letter kaf as a noun meaning "like" and to treat it as an absolute object in the accusative case, and the verb that follows it—usually it is followed by—
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