The ninth word of verse (28:57) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, supplemental particle and negative particle. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do". The supplemental particle wa is usually translated as "then" or "so".

Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:57:9) awalam Have not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام الواو زائدة حرف نفي

Verse (28:57)

The analysis above refers to the 57th verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: And they say, "If we were to follow the guidance with you, we would be swept from our land." Have we not established for them a safe sanctuary to which are brought the fruits of all things as provision from Us? But most of them do not know.

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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