The eighth word of verse (58:16) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, preposition and personal pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The prefixed preposition lām is usually translated as "for". The personal pronoun is third person masculine plural. Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (58) sūrat l-mujādilah (She That Disputeth) (58:16:8) falahum so for them
REM – prefixed resumption particle P – prefixed preposition lām PRON – 3rd person masculine plural personal pronoun	الفاء استئنافية جار ومجرور

Verse (58:16)

The analysis above refers to the sixteenth verse of chapter 58 (sūrat l-mujādilah):

Sahih International: They took their [false] oaths as a cover, so they averted [people] from the way of Allah , and for them is a humiliating punishment.

See Also

• English Translations
• Preposition Phrases
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse

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