The fifth word of verse (56:70) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A resumption particle and exhortation particle. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events.

Chapter (56) sūrat l-wāqiʿah (The Event) (56:70:5) falawlā then why are you not grateful?
REM – prefixed resumption particle EXH – exhortation particle	الفاء استئنافية حرف تحضيض

Verse (56:70)

The analysis above refers to the 70th verse of chapter 56 (sūrat l-wāqiʿah):

Sahih International: If We willed, We could make it bitter, so why are you not grateful?

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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Kais 30th May, 2013 Translation: then why not

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