The ninth word of verse (25:40) 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 (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion) (25:40:9) afalam Then do not
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif SUP – prefixed supplemental particle NEG – negative particle	الهمزة همزة استفهام الفاء زائدة حرف نفي

Verse (25:40)

The analysis above refers to the 40th verse of chapter 25 (sūrat l-fur'qān):

Sahih International: And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.

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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