The first word of verse (9:78) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An interrogative alif and negative particle. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do".

Chapter (9) sūrat l-tawbah (The Repentance) (9:78:1) alam Do not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام حرف نفي

Verse (9:78)

The analysis above refers to the 78th verse of chapter 9 (sūrat l-tawbah):

Sahih International: Did they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private conversations and that Allah is the Knower of the unseen?

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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