LessonsThe Subject of Predication: Pronouns of Affair, Iltifāt and Departure from Expected ExpressionQuiz

«وَاللَّهُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًا فَسُقْنَاهُ»
Allah is the One who sends the winds, so they stir clouds, and We drive them onward. (Qurʾān 35:9)

The sentence begins with Allah mentioned in the third person, then «فسقناه» uses a first-person plural verbal form. The same divine activity remains in view, yet the mode of reporting changes.

The shift can lend a new immediacy to the narration of power and agency: the One first described is now represented through the direct “We” of majestic speech.

This plural is the Qurʾānic style of grandeur; it does not suggest a plurality of deities.

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From third person to first person

The Subject of Predication: Pronouns of Affair, Iltifāt and Departure from Expected Expression

«وَاللَّهُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًا فَسُقْنَاهُ»
Allah is the One who sends the winds, so they stir clouds, and We drive them onward. (Qurʾān 35:9)

The sentence begins with Allah mentioned in the third person, then «فسقناه» uses a first-person plural verbal form. The same divine activity remains in view, yet the mode of reporting changes.

The shift can lend a new immediacy to the narration of power and agency: the One first described is now represented through the direct “We” of majestic speech.

This plural is the Qurʾānic style of grandeur; it does not suggest a plurality of deities.