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﴿وَلَا تَمْنُنْ تَسْتَكْثِرُ﴾
Do not confer a favor while regarding what you give as great. (Al-Muddaththir 74:6)

Here tastakthiru is an affirmative imperfect that can be explained as the attendant state of the action expressed by lā tamnun. It follows without a circumstantial wāw. The wāw at the beginning of the verse is not an introductory wāw to tastakthiru; its syntactic position and function are different.

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The Qur’anic example: wa-lā tamnun tastakthir

Circumstantial Imperfect and Past Verbs: Rules for Wāw al-Ḥāl

﴿وَلَا تَمْنُنْ تَسْتَكْثِرُ﴾
Do not confer a favor while regarding what you give as great. (Al-Muddaththir 74:6)

Here tastakthiru is an affirmative imperfect that can be explained as the attendant state of the action expressed by lā tamnun. It follows without a circumstantial wāw. The wāw at the beginning of the verse is not an introductory wāw to tastakthiru; its syntactic position and function are different.