In “inqaṭaʿa al-ṭarīqu fa-jtamaʿa ahlu al-qarya,” what does fāʾ add beyond plain wāw?

Supplementary Practice 12: Rhetorical Evidence, Competing Analyses and Reasoned Revision

• It presents the gathering as a related consequence following the disruption
• It merely joins two reports with a common subject
• It introduces the workers’ simultaneous circumstance
• It changes the report into a rhetorical question