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Abasa · Ayah 3

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But what

وَمَا

But what

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

مَاHarf · Interrogative particle

what?

Lemmaمَا

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Question marker

وَمَا (But what) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

But what would make you perceive, [O Muḥammad], that perhaps he might be purified

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