«وَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِنَا»
If you are in doubt concerning what We have sent down upon Our servant.
The doubt is placed in the position of the addressees, not attributed to the divine speaker. The condition provides a premise from which the audience is challenged to consider evidence.
This does not conflict with the discourse’s certainty about revelation: the conditional clause is a rhetorical engagement with a listener’s supposed state.
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Conditional Particles: In, Idha, Law, and Rhetorical Reframing
«وَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِنَا»
If you are in doubt concerning what We have sent down upon Our servant.
The doubt is placed in the position of the addressees, not attributed to the divine speaker. The condition provides a premise from which the audience is challenged to consider evidence.
This does not conflict with the discourse’s certainty about revelation: the conditional clause is a rhetorical engagement with a listener’s supposed state.