LessonsSupplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-IkhlāṣQuiz

لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ
He neither begets nor is begotten. (112:3)

Lam negates and governs the jussive imperfect while giving the clause a past-oriented negative force. The verbs yalid and yūlad are both jussive with sukūn. They must not be called morphological past forms simply because lam changes their temporal interpretation.

Repeating lam states each negation separately. Within the whole surah, the statements jointly reject genealogical relation; syntactic and theological claims should still be distinguished in analysis.

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Lam: jussive imperfect with past-oriented negation

Supplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-Ikhlāṣ

لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ
He neither begets nor is begotten. (112:3)

Lam negates and governs the jussive imperfect while giving the clause a past-oriented negative force. The verbs yalid and yūlad are both jussive with sukūn. They must not be called morphological past forms simply because lam changes their temporal interpretation.

Repeating lam states each negation separately. Within the whole surah, the statements jointly reject genealogical relation; syntactic and theological claims should still be distinguished in analysis.