Notes on afalā by sam.
Notes pad XIV on afalā by sam. afalā 2:44, 2:76, 3:65, 4:82, 5:74, 6:32, 6:50, 6:80, 7:65, 7:169, 10:3, 10:16, 10:31, 11:24, 11:30, 11:51, 12:109, 16:17, 20:89, 21:10, 21:30, 21:44, 21:67, 23:23, 23:32, 23:80, 23:85, 23:87, 28:60, 28:71, 28:72, 32:4, 32:26, 32:27, 36:35, 36:68, 36:73, 37:138, 37:155, 43:51, 45:23, 47:24, 51:21, 88:17, 100:9. Generally rendered as a simple negative question functioning as an exhortation: Do you not think? Will they not consider? However, having reviewed all instances, I have come to the view that the Qur’anic usage is more nuanced. While not losing its interrogative sense, it has a quality of exasperation, of (perhaps, negative) wonder, or goading or ribbing, and functions as a rhetorical flourish within an argument to a greater extent than the plain negative question suggests. Do you then not see! Will they then not consider! I render thus in all cases and use exclamation marks. I use do or will depending on whether the verb deno...