The eleventh word of verse (28:15) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The form VIII imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine dual and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is qāf tā lām (ق ت ل). The suffix (الألف) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:15:11) yaqtatilāni fighting each other;
V – 3rd person masculine dual (form VIII) imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع والألف ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (28:15)

The analysis above refers to the fifteenth verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."

See Also

• English Translations
• Verb Forms in Quranic Grammar
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root qāf tā lām

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