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قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ
Sentence structure
The passive verb قُتِلَ has ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ as its passive subject. One recognized analysis treats مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ as an exclamatory construction; an interrogative analysis is also recognized.

Ayah summary
The ungrateful human being deserves severe reproach for failing to value Allah’s great favour.

قُتِلَ — Is destroyed
Grammar: third-person masculine singular passive perfect verb.

ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ — [the] man
Grammar: ٱلْ is the definite article. nominative noun functioning as the passive subject.

مَآ — how
Grammar: In one recognized analysis, an exclamatory indefinite complete noun serving as the subject; an interrogative analysis is also recognized.

أَكْفَرَهُۥ — ungrateful is he
Grammar: form IV third-person masculine singular perfect verb; it functions as the predicate. Attached هُۥ is a third-person masculine singular pronoun functioning as the object.

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Surah ‘Abasa · Ayah 17

Surah ‘Abasa — Part 2

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ
Sentence structure
The passive verb قُتِلَ has ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ as its passive subject. One recognized analysis treats مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ as an exclamatory construction; an interrogative analysis is also recognized.

Ayah summary
The ungrateful human being deserves severe reproach for failing to value Allah’s great favour.

قُتِلَ — Is destroyed
Grammar: third-person masculine singular passive perfect verb.

ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ — [the] man
Grammar: ٱلْ is the definite article. nominative noun functioning as the passive subject.

مَآ — how
Grammar: In one recognized analysis, an exclamatory indefinite complete noun serving as the subject; an interrogative analysis is also recognized.

أَكْفَرَهُۥ — ungrateful is he
Grammar: form IV third-person masculine singular perfect verb; it functions as the predicate. Attached هُۥ is a third-person masculine singular pronoun functioning as the object.