Meaning: then they became · Also translated as: and became, then becomes, then you became, Then he became
Forms in the Quran
فَأَصْبَحُوا۟×9
فَأَصْبَحَ×5
فَأَصْبَحْتُم×2
فَتُصْبِحَ×2
وَأَصْبَحَ×2
فَيُصْبِحُوا۟×1
أَصْبَحُوا۟×1
يُصْبِحَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الصبح والصباح، أول النهار، وهو وقت ما احمر الأفق بحاجب الشمس. قال تعالى: أليس الصبح بقريب [هود/ 81] ، وقال: فساء صباح المنذرين
قوله تعالى: ﴿فالمغيرات صبحا﴾ [العاديات: 3]. الصبح والصباح: أول النهار، وهو وقت احمرار الأفق بحاجب الشمس. قوله تعالى: ﴿فالق الإصباح﴾ [الأنعام: 96] أي ضوء النهار. والإصباح في الأصل: مصدر أصبح. فالمعنى: جاعل ذلك. وشبهه كالبيضة التي تفلق عن الشيء، كأن ضوء النهار كان محتجبا في شيء انفلق عنه. قوله: ﴿فساد صباح المنذرين﴾…
And hold fast,
All together, by the Rope
Which God (stretches out
For you), and be not divided
Among yourselves;
And remember with gratitude
God's favour on you;
For ye were enemies
And He joined your hearts
In love, so that by His Grace,
Ye became brethren;
And ye were on the brink
Of the Pit of Fire,
And He saved you from it.
Thus doth God make
His Signs clear to you:
That ye may be guided.
Then God sent a raven,
Who scratched the ground,
To show him how to hide
The shame of his brother.
"Woe is me!" said he;
"Was I not even able
To be as this raven,
And to hide the shame
Of my brother?" Then he became
Full of regrets—
Those in whose hearts
Is a disease—thou seest
How eagerly they run about
Amongst them, saying:
"We do fear lest a change
Of fortune bring us disaster."
Ah! perhaps God will give
(Thee) victory, or a decision
According to His Will.
Then will they repent
Of the thoughts which they secretly
Harboured in their hearts.
And those who believe
Will say: "Are these
The men who swore
Their strongest oaths by God,
That they were with you?"
All that they do
Will be in vain,
And they will fall
Into (nothing but) ruin.
When Our decree issued,
We saved Shu’aib and those
Who believed with him,
By (special) Mercy from Ourselves
But the (mighty) Blast did seize
The wrong-doers, and they
Lay prostrate in their homes
By the morning,—
"It may be that my Lord
Will give me something
Better than thy garden,
And that He will send
On thy garden thunderbolts
(By way of reckoning)
From heaven, making it
(But) slippery sand!—
So his fruits (and enjoyment)
Were encompassed (with ruin),
And he remained twisting
And turning his hands
Over what he had spent
On his property, which had
(Now) tumbled to pieces
To its very foundations,
And he could only say,
"Woe is me! Would I had
Never ascribed partners
To my Lord and Cherisher!"
Set forth to them
The similitude of the life
Of this world: it is like
The rain which We send
Down from the skies:
The earth's vegetation absorbs it,
But soon it becomes
Dry stubble, which the winds
Do scatter: it is (only) God
Who prevails over all things.
Seest thou not that God
Sends down rain from the sky,
And forthwith the earth
Becomes clothed with green?
For God is He Who understands
The finest mysteries, and
Is well-acquainted (with them).
But there came to be
A void in the heart
Of the mother of Moses:
She was going almost to
Disclose his (case), had We
Not strengthened her heart
(With faith), so that she
Might remain a (firm) believer.
So he saw the morning
In the City, looking about,
In a state of fear, when
Behold, the man who had,
The day before, sought his help
Called aloud for his help
(Again). Moses said to him:
"Thou art truly, it is clear,
A quarrelsome fellow!"
And those who had envied
His position the day before
Began to say on the morrow:
"Ah! It is indeed God
Who enlarges the provision
Or restricts it, to any
Of His servants He pleases!
Had it not been that God
Was gracious to us, He
Could have caused the earth
To swallow us up! Ah!
Those who reject God
Will assuredly never prosper."