أَنَّىhow

Example sentences

• فَأَنَّى يَضُرُّكَ كَيْدُ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ

  How then could the plotting of the accursed Satan harm you?

  فَأَنَّى — how then. The front 'fa-' draws an inference ('so then'), and the rest is a question-word ('how / from where') used here not to ask for directions but to deny outright: 'how could it possibly...?'. The whole opening sets up a rhetorical challenge expecting the answer 'it cannot'.

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