A future event may be cast in a past form to depict its certainty or full realization. This rhetorical presentation does not claim that the event has already passed in historical time.
«إِذْ وُقِفُوا عَلَى النَّارِ»
When they are made to stand before the Fire.
Wuqifu is morphologically a passive perfect, although the described scene is eschatological. The past form makes the event appear as good as realized in the discourse; an imperfect elsewhere can add vivid recurrence or immediacy.
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The Rhetoric of Law: Nonoccurrence, Entailment, Hypothesis and Tense
A future event may be cast in a past form to depict its certainty or full realization. This rhetorical presentation does not claim that the event has already passed in historical time.
«إِذْ وُقِفُوا عَلَى النَّارِ»
When they are made to stand before the Fire.
Wuqifu is morphologically a passive perfect, although the described scene is eschatological. The past form makes the event appear as good as realized in the discourse; an imperfect elsewhere can add vivid recurrence or immediacy.