The ninth word of verse (13:16) is divided into 4 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, supplemental particle, verb and subject pronoun. 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". The form VIII perfect verb (فعل ماض) is second person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is hamza khā dhāl (أ خ ذ). The suffix (التاء) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (13) sūrat l-raʿd (The Thunder) (13:16:9) afa-ittakhadhtum "Have you then taken
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle V – 2nd person masculine plural (form VIII) perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الهمزة همزة استفهام الفاء زائدة فعل ماض والتاء ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (13:16)

The analysis above refers to the sixteenth verse of chapter 13 (sūrat l-raʿd):

Sahih International: Say, "Who is Lord of the heavens and earth?" Say, " Allah." Say, "Have you then taken besides Him allies not possessing [even] for themselves any benefit or any harm?" Say, "Is the blind equivalent to the seeing? Or is darkness equivalent to light? Or have they attributed to Allah partners who created like His creation so that the creation [of each] seemed similar to them?" Say, " Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Prevailing."

See Also

• English Translations
• The Particle alif (أ)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza khā dhāl

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