The twentieth word of verse (2:251) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and verb. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person feminine singular. The verb's triliteral root is fā sīn dāl (ف س د).

Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow) (2:251:20) lafasadati certainly (would have) corrupted
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām V – 3rd person feminine singular perfect verb	اللام لام التوكيد فعل ماض

Verse (2:251)

The analysis above refers to the 251st verse of chapter 2 (sūrat l-baqarah):

Sahih International: So they defeated them by permission of Allah , and David killed Goliath, and Allah gave him the kingship and prophethood and taught him from that which He willed. And if it were not for Allah checking [some] people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted, but Allah is full of bounty to the worlds.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Dependency Graph - visual syntax (i'rāb) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root fā sīn dāl

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