The ninth word of verse (20:86) 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 (20) sūrat ṭā hā (20:86:9) alam Did not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام حرف نفي

Verse (20:86)

The analysis above refers to the 86th verse of chapter 20 (sūrat ṭā hā):

Sahih International: So Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved. He said, "O my people, did your Lord not make you a good promise? Then, was the time [of its fulfillment] too long for you, or did you wish that wrath from your Lord descend upon you, so you broke your promise [of obedience] to me?"

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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