LessonsInshāʾ: Requestive and Non-requestive Forms, Imperative Constructions and Rhetorical FunctionsQuiz

رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ
My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor.

“أَوْزِعْنِي” is formally imperative, but the speaker humbly asks God to grant the ability to give thanks. Its rhetorical purpose is therefore supplication, not a superior issuing a command. The words appear in Qurʾān 27:19.

رَبِّ: a possessive vocative with the call particle omitted.
أَوْزِعْنِي: an imperative with implicit subject “anta,” protective nūn, and a first-person object suffix.

What is sought is the grace of gratitude. The speaker–addressee relationship and humble request identify the utterance as prayer.

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Inshāʾ: Requestive and Non-requestive Forms, Imperative Constructions and Rhetorical Functions

رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ
My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor.

“أَوْزِعْنِي” is formally imperative, but the speaker humbly asks God to grant the ability to give thanks. Its rhetorical purpose is therefore supplication, not a superior issuing a command. The words appear in Qurʾān 27:19.

رَبِّ: a possessive vocative with the call particle omitted.
أَوْزِعْنِي: an imperative with implicit subject “anta,” protective nūn, and a first-person object suffix.

What is sought is the grace of gratitude. The speaker–addressee relationship and humble request identify the utterance as prayer.