The first word of verse (20:89) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, supplemental particle and negative particle. 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".

Chapter (20) sūrat ṭā hā (20:89:1) afalā Then, did not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام الفاء زائدة حرف نفي

Verse (20:89)

The analysis above refers to the 89th verse of chapter 20 (sūrat ṭā hā):

Sahih International: Did they not see that it could not return to them any speech and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit?

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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