The Table, The Table Spread 5:79

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Arabic English Morphology
They had been V
لَا
not Prep
forbidding each other V
عَن ʿan
from Prep
مُّنكَرٍ munkarin
wrongdoing Noun
فَعَلُوهُ faʿalūhu
they did [it] V
Surely, evil V
مَا
(was) what Noun
they were V
doing V

they did not forbid each other to do wrong. How vile their deeds were

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

كَانُوا۟ لَا یَتَنَاهَوۡنَ عَن مُّنكَرࣲ فَعَلُوهُۚ لَبِئۡسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ یَفۡعَلُونَ ۝٧٩

kānū lā yatanāhawna ʿan munkarin faʿalūhu labi'sa mā kānū yafʿalūn