Understanding and application

What is the effect of لَمْ in لَمْ يَبْدَأْ?

Companionship, Trust, Mosque Etiquette, Detachment, and Workers’ Rights (Hadith 146–153)

• Makes a future promise
• Makes the verb plural
• Turns it into an imperative
• Negates the past event and puts the present verb in the jussive