Third kind of إنشَاء Insha - الاستفهام

Sentences of Question

هل vs أ - الهمزة

To know difference between these 2 for questioning.

We must know the difference between التصوّر and التصديق

التصوُّر : When the answer narrows down choices. - Picking up choices

التصديق : An answer of “yes” or “no”

أ can be used for both التصوّر and التصديق ,

whereas هل is used only for التصديق ( YES or NO type questions )

أ - الهمزة

التصوّر and التصديق occurs in the following cases :

1. مسندًا إليه

أأنْتَ فَعَلْتَ هَذا أم يُوْسُف

Did you do this or Yusuf ?

when you have التصوّر question ( Picking up choices ) then what you put first after أ is what the question is about ( musnad Ilayh )

2. أم مسندًا

أنتَ راغِبٌ - you are inclined.

راغِبٌ - usually comes with عن and في ( Some فعل are married to some حرف )

When there is عن with راغِبٌ - It means “You are inclined not to do something”

أأنتَ راغِبٌ غَن الصَّلَوةِ - “Are you inclined away from the prayer”

أأنتَ راغِبٌ في الصَّلوةِ - “Are you inclined towards prayer”

أأنتَ راغِبٌ - here what is musnad and musnad Ilayh ?

أنتَ is musnad Ilayh ( What you are talking about ) and راغِبٌ is musnad ( what are you saying about them )

أراغِبٌ انت عن الأمر أم راغب فيه - Here أنتَ is mubtada and راغِبٌ is خبر, It may look like mubtada is mua’khar and khabar in muqaddam but it is not . This is a question of التصوّر - the thing you are doing taswwur of ( here it is musnad) , should be right after أ ( In التصوّر Question concept of muqaddam, mua’khar doesn’t apply )

3. أم مفعولا

taswwur of مفعول ( here فيد )

أإيَّايَ تَقْصِدُ أم سَعِيْدًا - “Do you mean me or Saeed?”

4. أم حَالًا

اِسم فَاعِل is often used as حال ( Haal is the answer to “How?” )

Haal could be of act, doer or detail

أراكِبًا حَضَرْتَ أم ماشِيًا - “Did you come riding or walking?”

5. أم ظرف

Ism of Time and place

أيَومَ الخَمِيْسِ قَدَمْتَ أم يَوْمَ الجُمْعة - “Did you arrive on Thursday or Friday?”

مُعَادِل

In Question of choices - the second choice is called مُعَادِل

Sometimes you don’t have to mention مُعادل

أ - التصديق

الهمزة - أ as التصديق is simply answered a “yes” or “no” . It mostly occurs as جملة فعليّة

أحَضَرَ الأُميرُ - Did the prince come ?

More Resources :

By Bayyinah Dream Students

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