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Al-Ahqaf (The Wind-Curved Sandhills) · Ayah 24

فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًا مُّسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ هَـٰذَا عَارِضٌ مُّمْطِرُنَا ۚ بَلْ هُوَ مَا ٱسْتَعْجَلْتُم بِهِۦ ۖ رِيحٌ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ 24

And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment,

فَلَمَّاfalammāThen when

noun

رَأَوْهُra-awhuthey saw it

رأيr-a-yverb

عَارِضًۭاʿāriḍan(as) a cloud

عرض'-r-dnoun

مُّسْتَقْبِلَmus'taqbilaapproaching

قبلq-b-lnoun

أَوْدِيَتِهِمْawdiyatihimtheir valleys

وديw-d-ynoun

قَالُوا۟qālūthey said

قولq-w-lverb