What does wa-antum taʿlamūna emphasize in Qur’an 2:22?
Wāw with Nominal Circumstantial Clauses: Omission, Inclusion and Disputed Cases
- It marks knowledge as unrelated to the prohibition
- The audience already possesses knowledge at the time of the prohibition
- It makes knowledge the answer to an explicit inna-condition
- It makes this an oath wāw followed by its answer