Hafiz soon
As-Saffat · 37:86

Is it falsehood [as] gods other than Allāh you desire?

Sahih International

Word 1 of 5

أَئِفْكًا

a-if'kan

Is it falsehood -

Word breakdown

أ

Harf · Interrogative particle

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ئفْكًا

Ism · Noun

Is it falsehood -

RootافكAfk

to lie, deceive, turn away from truth; falsehood, lie; to overturn, destroy

30× in the Quran · Occasional

LemmaإِفْكNoun - lie, falsehood

Grammar rules

Indefinite noun

أَئِفْكًا (Is it falsehood -) has no ال and takes tanwīn (the "n" sound at the end), so it means "a" or "some" — not a specific one.

We translate it as "a/an" or leave it general.

Lesson 2 · I'rab & Flexibility
Question marker

أَئِفْكًا (Is it falsehood -) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition