LessonsĪjāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and EquivalenceQuiz

«وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذْ وُقِفُوا عَلَى النَّارِ»
If only you could see when they are made to stand before the Fire.

This is part of Qurʾān 6:27. The apodosis of law (لو) is not expressed in the quoted construction. The context invites the hearer to imagine an overwhelming scene; a teaching paraphrase such as “you would see something terrible” is an explanation, not the Qurʾānic wording.

The omission creates an effect beyond brevity: it allows the listeners' minds to grasp the scene's gravity without enclosing it in one ordinary descriptive statement.

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Ellipsis in conditional constructions

Ījāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and Equivalence

«وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذْ وُقِفُوا عَلَى النَّارِ»
If only you could see when they are made to stand before the Fire.

This is part of Qurʾān 6:27. The apodosis of law (لو) is not expressed in the quoted construction. The context invites the hearer to imagine an overwhelming scene; a teaching paraphrase such as “you would see something terrible” is an explanation, not the Qurʾānic wording.

The omission creates an effect beyond brevity: it allows the listeners' minds to grasp the scene's gravity without enclosing it in one ordinary descriptive statement.