How does the wāw of wa-staghfirhu differ from the fāʾ of fa-sabbiḥ?
Supplementary Practice 22: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Kāfirūn and al-Naṣr
- They are the same grammatical particle in every respect
- Wāw alone is the conditional response and fāʾ negates
- Fāʾ turns a verb into a noun and wāw makes it jussive
- Fāʾ joins the response to the condition; wāw coordinates two commands within that response