ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ ۚ بَنَىٰهَا
Ayah summary
For the One who created the mighty sky, recreating human beings is not difficult.
Sentence structure
أَأَنتُمْ is the subject, أَشَدُّ its predicate, and خَلْقًا its specification. أَمِ ٱلسَّمَاءُ begins the other side of the comparison; ٱلسَّمَاءُ is a subject whose predicate “more difficult to create” is understood from the preceding clause. بَنَىٰهَا is an explanatory clause.
ءَأَنتُمْ — Are you
Grammar: ءَ is an interrogative particle. أَنتُمْ is a detached pronoun in the nominative position as subject.
أَشَدُّ — harder
Grammar: nominative noun functioning as the predicate.
خَلْقًا — creation
Grammar: accusative noun functioning as the accusative specification.
أَمِ — or
Grammar: أَمِ is a conjunction.
ٱلسَّمَآءُ ۚ — the heaven
Grammar: ٱل is the definite article. nominative noun.
بَنَىٰهَا — He constructed it
Grammar: third-person masculine singular perfect verb. Attached هَا is a third-person feminine singular pronoun functioning as object.