The first word of verse (23:47) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb and subject pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is qāf wāw lām (ق و ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (23) sūrat l-mu'minūn (The Believers) (23:47:1) faqālū Then they said,
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (23:47)

The analysis above refers to the 47th verse of chapter 23 (sūrat l-mu'minūn):

Sahih International: They said, "Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?"

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root qāf wāw lām

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