The Particle Kallā: Rejection, Restraint and Emphasis

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• Which particle is the subject of this chapter?
• What does radʿ mean?
• Which gloss best fits rebuking kallā?
• What does kallā do in the road dialogue?
• What is kallā in its basic grammatical analysis?
• Where is rabbī ahānan in Al-Fajr?
• Which Al-Fajr verse begins with kallā?
• Which inference does kallā rebut in Al-Fajr?
• What is bal in the cited verse?
• Why is tukrimūna indicative?
• What is the syntactic role of al-yatīma?
• One meaning of kallā after a command?
• Meaning of the response to “Leave the lesson”?
• What should be identified first?
• Where is rabb irjiʿūn in Al-Muʾminūn?
• Where is kallā after the request in Al-Muʾminūn?
• What is rejected in Al-Muʾminūn?
• What additional sense does the text give for kallā?
• Where does kallā sawfa taʿlamūn occur?
• What is the role of sawfa?
• How is taʿlamūna marked indicative?
• Which excerpt is from Q 96:6?
• Why is al-insāna accusative?
• What is the initial lām in la-yaṭghā?
• How is the indicative of yaṭghā marked?
• How should the nominal reading be taught?
• What does the alternative view call kallā?
• Why avoid a single gloss for all Qur’anic occurrences?
• What distinguishes kallā from kilā?
• What does kilā mean in this example?
• What is kullan in this example?
• What is al-bābu in the added example?
• What is maftūḥun?
• What does semantic similarity not imply?
• Which verses contain the expectation and kallā in Al-Muddaththir?
• What is the best first analysis step?
• Which statement correctly handles the commentary?
• Which is the next chapter?
• The chapter centers on kallā.
• Kallā is always a preposition.
• Kallā may reject a preceding claim.
• Kallā in Al-Fajr is in verse 16.
• Kallā itself makes imperfect verbs jussive.
• Kallā can refuse a preceding command.
• The commentary notes different explanations after a command.
• Kallā rejecting the request occurs in Q 23:100.
• The text also gives kallā a sense akin to ḥaqqan.
• The nominal analysis is the only uncontested view.
• Kallā governs al-insāna as accusative.
• The lām in la-yaṭghā is emphatic.
• Sawfa in Q 102:3 indicates future.
• Kallā and kilā are grammatically identical.
• Al-bābu is the subject in the added sentence.
• Every Qur’anic kallā must mean only rebuke.
• The next chapter treats the feminine tāʾ.