The second word of verse (37:138) 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 fa is usually translated as "then" or "so".

Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:138:2) afalā Then will not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام الفاء زائدة حرف نفي

Verse (37:138)

The analysis above refers to the 138th verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: And at night. Then will you not use reason?

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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