Al-Ikhlas · 112:3
لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْۙ
He begot no one nor was He begotten
لَمْ
lam
- Meaning
- not (did not)
- Part of speech
- Negative particle (حرف)
- Role
- Negates the verb and shifts it to the past
- Case
- Particle (invariable)
- Grammar
- Placed before a present-tense verb, it both negates it and shifts it to the past: ‘does not’ → ‘did not’. It also puts the verb into the jussive (a bare sukūn ending).