The sixteenth word of verse (17:7) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A preposition and subordinating conjunction. The prefixed preposition ka is usually translated as "like" or "as". Together the segments form a preposition phrase known as jār wa majrūr (جار ومجرور).

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) (17:7:16) kamā just as
P – prefixed preposition ka SUB – subordinating conjunction	جار ومجرور

Verse (17:7)

The analysis above refers to the seventh verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā):

Sahih International: [And said], "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves." Then when the final promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.

See Also

• English Translations
• Subordinate Clauses
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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