And verily there has come to them such tidings stories about the destruction of communities which denied their messengers as contain a deterrent to them muzdajar is a verbal noun or a noun of place; the dāl of muzdajar replaces the tā’ of the 8th form ifta‘ala; one may say izdajartuhu or zajartuhu to mean ‘I forbade him sternly’; mā ‘such as’ either indicates a relative clause or it is qualified by an adjective;