Qad: Expectation, Confirmation and Contextual Meanings

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• Which particle is central to this chapter?
• What kind of verb is waṣala?
• Best interpretation of qad waṣala?
• Typical contribution of qad with past?
• How is kataba built?
• Role of al-ṭālibu?
• Role of al-bābu after passive futiḥa?
• Form of futiḥa?
• Role of tāʾ in anhaytu?
• Role of al-wājiba?
• Mood of yaktubu after qad?
• Usual force of qad in this context?
• Point of the generous-person example?
• Best reading of qad yaṣilu ghadan?
• Function of ghadan?
• Meaning of qad in Qurʾān 33:18?
• Form of narā in Qurʾān 2:144?
• Which meaning is wrong in qad narā?
• What determines qad’s nuance with the imperfect?
• What mood does qad itself govern?
• Role of al-kadhūba?
• Predicate of inna?
• Role of risālatan?
• Function of wāw in the circumstantial example?
• What intervenes between qad and its verb?
• Why is Allāhi genitive?
• Subject of aḥsanta?
• How is the poetic wa-kaʾan qad understood?
• Principal difference between the two?
• Role of al-ṣalātu?
• How is the indicative case of narā shown?
• Role of al-muʿawwiqīna?
• Role of taqalluba?
• Case of al-kadhūbu when explicit subject?
• Why is al-kadhūba accusative with inna?
• Which meaning is plausible in qad yaḥḍuru ghadan?
• When does the text allow separation after qad?
• First step in interpreting qad?
• Form of najaḥa?
• Most careful generalization about qad?
• Next chapter after Qad?
• Qad turns a past verb into an imperfect.
• Qad does not by itself make the imperfect subjunctive.
• Qad with the past necessarily means minutes ago.
• The habitual-liar example illustrates rarity in the text.
• Qad with the imperfect always means rarity.
• Qad yaʿlamu Allāhu expresses uncertainty about divine knowledge.
• The imperfect in qad yaḥḍuru ghadan can refer to the future.
• Al-bābu is an accusative object in qad futiḥa al-bābu.
• The oath example is an attested exception to adjacency.
• Any noun may freely intervene between qad and its verb.
• The poetic wa-kaʾan qad can involve an understood verb.
• Narā in qad narā is a past verb.
• Al-ṭālibu is nominative subject in qad yaktubu al-ṭālibu.
• The tāʾ in qāmati al-ṣalātu marks feminine agreement.
• Qad makes al-kadhūba accusative.
• Taqalluba is the direct object of narā.
• Qad waṣala and qad yaṣilu have the same tense.
• Qad may emphasize completion with the past.
• Qad must be translated with one fixed Urdu equivalent.
• The next chapter treats the two interrogative particles.