The fourth word of verse (41:17) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb and subject pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The form X perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is ḥā bā bā (ح ب ب). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (41) sūrat fuṣṣilat (Explained in Detail) (41:17:4) fa-is'taḥabbū but they preferred
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person masculine plural (form X) perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (41:17)

The analysis above refers to the seventeenth verse of chapter 41 (sūrat fuṣṣilat):

Sahih International: And as for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness over guidance, so the thunderbolt of humiliating punishment seized them for what they used to earn.

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 ḥā bā bā

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