وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ ۩
Sentence structure
وَإِذَا introduces a future non-jussive condition. Passive قُرِئَ is the condition verb and ٱلْقُرْءَانُ its nominative deputy subject; لَا يَسْجُدُونَ is the response.
Ayah summary
Even when the Qur’an is recited, they do not prostrate or humble themselves.
وَإِذَا — And when
Grammar: وَ coordinates and إِذَا is a future non-jussive conditional time adverb.
قُرِئَ — is recited
Grammar: A third-person masculine-singular passive perfect serving as the condition verb.
عَلَيْهِمُ — to them
Grammar: عَلَى is a preposition and attached هِمُ its genitive pronoun; the phrase is linked to قُرِئَ.
ٱلْقُرْءَانُ — the Quran
Grammar: ٱل is the definite article; قُرْءَانُ is the nominative deputy subject of passive قُرِئَ.
لَا — not
Grammar: A non-governing negative particle beginning the conditional response.
يَسْجُدُونَ ۩ — they prostrate
Grammar: A third-person masculine-plural imperfect forming the conditional response. Attached و is the subject and final ن marks the indicative; the final sajdah sign is a recitation marker, not a syntactic segment.