In innā sawfa tudrikunā l-manāyā, inna provides emphasis, nā is its subject, and the verbal clause forms its predicate. Al-manāyā is the subject of tudriku; the attached nā is the object.
Muqaddaratan lanā wa-muqaddarīnā sets up a parallel relation between allotted deaths and humans subject to the same decree. The rhetoric doubles the sense of inevitability.
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ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Wine Gathering, Umm ʿAmr, Mortality and Parting (Verses 1–11)
In innā sawfa tudrikunā l-manāyā, inna provides emphasis, nā is its subject, and the verbal clause forms its predicate. Al-manāyā is the subject of tudriku; the attached nā is the object.
Muqaddaratan lanā wa-muqaddarīnā sets up a parallel relation between allotted deaths and humans subject to the same decree. The rhetoric doubles the sense of inevitability.