Verb form shapes the rhetorical force of this passage. Fa-trukū and udhkurū demand action; tataʿāshaw belongs to a conditional warning; yanquḍu is the imperfect verb in a question about annulling a covenant.
FormMorphologyFunctionFa-trukūPlural imperativeDemand to desistUdhkurūPlural imperativeRecall the agreementTataʿāshawPlural imperfect, conditionalWarn of a consequenceYanquḍuSingular imperfectQuestion invalidation
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al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah: Ḥujr, Royal Kinship and the Dhū al-Majāz Covenant (verses 56–67)
Verb form shapes the rhetorical force of this passage. Fa-trukū and udhkurū demand action; tataʿāshaw belongs to a conditional warning; yanquḍu is the imperfect verb in a question about annulling a covenant.
FormMorphologyFunctionFa-trukūPlural imperativeDemand to desistUdhkurūPlural imperativeRecall the agreementTataʿāshawPlural imperfect, conditionalWarn of a consequenceYanquḍuSingular imperfectQuestion invalidation