See هل in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"roman": "hal ʔadullukum ʕalā tijāratin tunjīkum min ʕaḏābin ʔalīmin",
"text": "هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى تِجَارَةٍ تُنْجِيكُم مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ",
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"text": "هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى تِجَارَةٍ تُنْجِيكُم مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ",
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"ref": "13th-14th century CE, Taqī al-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn Taymiyyah, مَجْمُوع الْفَتَاوَى [majmūʕ al-fatāwā, The Collection of Rulings], volume 11, Medina, Saudi Arabia: King Fahd Complex, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 392–393:",
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