Hidden connotations of the conditional uses of (if) in the context of what indicates the past tense with the verb (shaa), an analytical and expressive grammatical study in the Quran

Abstract

"‘If’ with the verb ‘wished’ prevents what follows it, both the condition and the response. It prevents the response because the condition cannot be fulfilled, and since the condition can potentially be realized both in terms of rules and logic, the wish is not impossible but is contingent upon will. The response is contingent upon the impossibility of the condition. This concept is widely understood as indicating a refusal to fulfill the condition, which in turn leads to a refusal to fulfill the response. Thus, they say it is a particle of refusal due to refusal; more accurately, it is a particle that prevents fulfillment. It prevents the realization of the condition, thereby preventing the realization of the response in accordance with that prevention. Here, ‘if’ indicates prevention both in the past and forever, removing the verb ‘wished’ from the indication of the past and transferring it to the indication of the future, effectively freeing it from temporal constraints. This is its function whenever it appears; it serves as the tool that liberates the verb from limited temporal implications to open-ended, expansive time."