The first word of verse (16:17) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, supplemental particle and relative pronoun. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do". The supplemental particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so".

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) (16:17:1) afaman Then is He Who
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle REL – relative pronoun	الهمزة همزة استفهام الفاء زائدة اسم موصول

Verse (16:17)

The analysis above refers to the seventeenth verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl):

Sahih International: Then is He who creates like one who does not create? So will you not be reminded?

See Also

• English Translations
• The Particle alif (أ)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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