فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ
Will you then submit?
Some interrogative constructions seek an act rather than a bare yes/no reply. Fa-hal antum muslimūn can convey an appeal or command to submit: adopt submission and obedience.
Hal still has interrogative form. Its imperative force comes from the communicative situation, not from a grammatical transformation of hal into the imperative verb form.
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Non-interrogative Uses of Interrogatives: Rhetorical Purposes
فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ
Will you then submit?
Some interrogative constructions seek an act rather than a bare yes/no reply. Fa-hal antum muslimūn can convey an appeal or command to submit: adopt submission and obedience.
Hal still has interrogative form. Its imperative force comes from the communicative situation, not from a grammatical transformation of hal into the imperative verb form.