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

Future events may also be presented through active or passive participles. These nominal forms can depict an assured future occurrence as a settled description rather than a merely anticipated action.

«وَإِنَّ الدِّينَ لَوَاقِعٌ»
Judgment will certainly take place. (Qurʾān 51:6)

«ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمٌ مَجْمُوعٌ لَهُ النَّاسُ»
That is a day for which people will be gathered. (Qurʾān 11:103)

«واقع» is an active participle and «مجموع» a passive participle. Both describe events associated with the future in terms that stress their assured realization.

Keep morphology and rhetoric distinct: the word pattern identifies the form, while the context explains its force of certainty.

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Participles used for future certainty

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

Future events may also be presented through active or passive participles. These nominal forms can depict an assured future occurrence as a settled description rather than a merely anticipated action.

«وَإِنَّ الدِّينَ لَوَاقِعٌ»
Judgment will certainly take place. (Qurʾān 51:6)

«ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمٌ مَجْمُوعٌ لَهُ النَّاسُ»
That is a day for which people will be gathered. (Qurʾān 11:103)

«واقع» is an active participle and «مجموع» a passive participle. Both describe events associated with the future in terms that stress their assured realization.

Keep morphology and rhetoric distinct: the word pattern identifies the form, while the context explains its force of certainty.