The first word of verse (16:79) 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 (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) (16:79:1) alam Do not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام حرف نفي

Verse (16:79)

The analysis above refers to the 79th verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl):

Sahih International: Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? None holds them up except Allah. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe.

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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