The eighth word of verse (17:7) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A resumption particle and time adverb. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) (17:7:8) fa-idhā So when
REM – prefixed resumption particle T – time adverb	الفاء استئنافية ظرف زمان

Verse (17:7)

The analysis above refers to the seventh verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā):

Sahih International: [And said], "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves." Then when the final promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.

See Also

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

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