أَعَصَيْتَ رَبَّكَ
Have you disobeyed your Lord?
If the disobedience is already known to have occurred, the question is not a request for confirmation. It functions as rebuke: that act ought never to have happened.
This is an important use of rhetorical denial. It does not deny the historical occurrence; it repudiates its propriety, making a known wrong action the basis of criticism.
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Non-interrogative Uses of Interrogatives: Rhetorical Purposes
أَعَصَيْتَ رَبَّكَ
Have you disobeyed your Lord?
If the disobedience is already known to have occurred, the question is not a request for confirmation. It functions as rebuke: that act ought never to have happened.
This is an important use of rhetorical denial. It does not deny the historical occurrence; it repudiates its propriety, making a known wrong action the basis of criticism.