أَكْرِمْ — honour!
لَا تُكْرِمْ — do not honour!
The second-person active imperative of ifʿāl begins with hamzat al-qaṭʿ. Thus أَكْرِمْ does not have the connecting hamza seen in an unaugmented imperative such as اِضْرِبْ.
The imperative orders an action. In prohibition, lā al-nāhiyah makes the imperfect jussive: تُكْرِمُ becomes لَا تُكْرِمْ. Both belong to the same root and morphological form.
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Imperative, prohibition, and qaṭʿ hamza
Five Augmented Triliteral Patterns Without Hamzat al-Wasl
أَكْرِمْ — honour!
لَا تُكْرِمْ — do not honour!
The second-person active imperative of ifʿāl begins with hamzat al-qaṭʿ. Thus أَكْرِمْ does not have the connecting hamza seen in an unaugmented imperative such as اِضْرِبْ.
The imperative orders an action. In prohibition, lā al-nāhiyah makes the imperfect jussive: تُكْرِمُ becomes لَا تُكْرِمْ. Both belong to the same root and morphological form.