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Surah Al-Isra — 17:10

وَأَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

Wa annal lazeena laa yu'minoona bil aakhirati a'tadnaa lahum 'azaaban aleemaa

I że dla tych, którzy nie wierzą w życie ostateczne, przygotowaliśmy karę bolesną.

And for those who do not believe in the hereafter, we have prepared a painful punishment.

Reflection

This clause is grammatically bound to the one before it: both hang on anna, so the warning arrives inside the same sentence that announces good news. Grammarians noticed the strain and split over which verb governs the second anna — the announcing, which would make a threat part of the good news, or the earlier statement about what the Qur'an guides to. The English has to break the sentence in two; the Arabic does not.

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