The eighth word of verse (39:65) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and conditional particle. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis.

Chapter (39) sūrat l-zumar (The Groups) (39:65:8) la-in if
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām COND – conditional particle	اللام لام التوكيد حرف شرط

Verse (39:65)

The analysis above refers to the 65th verse of chapter 39 (sūrat l-zumar):

Sahih International: And it was already revealed to you and to those before you that if you should associate [anything] with Allah , your work would surely become worthless, and you would surely be among the losers."

See Also

• English Translations
• Conditional Expressions
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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