Al-Baqara · 2:8
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَقُولُ اٰمَنَّا بِاللّٰهِ وَبِالْيَوْمِ الْاٰخِرِ وَمَا هُمْ بِمُؤْمِن۪ينَۢ
Some people say, ‘We believe in God and the Last Day,’ when really they do not believe
وَمِنَ
wa-mina
- Meaning
- and among
- Part of speech
- Conjunction (وَ) + preposition
- Word parts
- وَ (and) + مِنْ (among)
- Role
- Fronted predicate: ‘and among the people [is]…’
- Governor
- governs ‘an-nās’
- Case
- Particle (mabnī)
- Grammar
- ‘And among’ — opens a nominal sentence whose predicate comes first: ‘and among the people is one who…’. Its ‘n’ takes a fatḥa (mina) before ‘al-’.