LessonsSupplementary Practice 22: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Kāfirūn and al-NaṣrQuiz

وَاسْتَغْفِرْهُ
And seek His forgiveness. (110:3)

Istaghfir is an imperative joined by wāw to the preceding sabbiḥ. The pronoun -hu refers to Allah, made clear by rabbika and the earlier naṣr Allāh. Thus two related acts — praise and glorification, and seeking forgiveness — form one connected response.

Wāw coordinates the commands; it does not by itself prove a fixed temporal order. The earlier fāʾ linked the whole response to its condition, whereas wāw adds another directive within that response.

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Wa-staghfirhu: coordination and pronominal reference

Supplementary Practice 22: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Kāfirūn and al-Naṣr

وَاسْتَغْفِرْهُ
And seek His forgiveness. (110:3)

Istaghfir is an imperative joined by wāw to the preceding sabbiḥ. The pronoun -hu refers to Allah, made clear by rabbika and the earlier naṣr Allāh. Thus two related acts — praise and glorification, and seeking forgiveness — form one connected response.

Wāw coordinates the commands; it does not by itself prove a fixed temporal order. The earlier fāʾ linked the whole response to its condition, whereas wāw adds another directive within that response.