فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ شَاكِرُونَ
Will you, then, be thankful?
The Qurʾānic wording places the pronoun antum and the active-participle predicate shākirūn after hal. Treating it as identical to “Hal tashkurūn?” would erase a rhetorical contrast.
A verbal clause foregrounds occurrence or renewal of thanks. A nominal clause can emphasize the quality or settled disposition of gratitude. Context can also give the question an exhortative force.
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Interrogation with Hal: Assent, Fronting and Temporal Meaning
فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ شَاكِرُونَ
Will you, then, be thankful?
The Qurʾānic wording places the pronoun antum and the active-participle predicate shākirūn after hal. Treating it as identical to “Hal tashkurūn?” would erase a rhetorical contrast.
A verbal clause foregrounds occurrence or renewal of thanks. A nominal clause can emphasize the quality or settled disposition of gratitude. Context can also give the question an exhortative force.