كَلَّا سَنَكْتُبُ مَا يَقُولُ وَنَمُدُّ لَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ مَدًّا
Quran glossary · draft
كلا
emphatic correction
An emphatic interruption that rejects a prior assumption and redirects attention to what follows.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 33
Lemmas: كلا
Forms: كَلَّا · كَلَّآ
Occurrence examples (10 of 33)
Scoped occurrences shown: the first 10 of 33 in Quran order. They are included as a compact, position-based preview and are not ranked as stronger evidence than the omitted occurrence count of 23.
كَلَّا سَيَكْفُرُونَ بِعِبَادَتِهِمْ وَيَكُونُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ ضِدًّا
لَعَلِّىٓ أَعْمَلُ صَٰلِحًا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَآئِلُهَا وَمِن وَرَآئِهِم بَرْزَخٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ
قَالَ كَلَّا فَٱذْهَبَا بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآ إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّسْتَمِعُونَ
قَالَ كَلَّآ إِنَّ مَعِىَ رَبِّى سَيَهْدِينِ
قُلْ أَرُونِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَلْحَقْتُم بِهِۦ شُرَكَآءَ كَلَّا بَلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ
كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِـَٔايَٰتِنَا عَنِيدًا
كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ
Why this meaning was chosen
All thirty-three occurrences were inspected on one bounded page. The particle rejects claims, requests, expectations, excuses, and complacent assumptions, then commonly introduces the corrective fact, warning, oath, command, or future disclosure. Orthographic length variation does not change function. One discourse-correction core covers the full set.