وَأَصْبَحَ ٱلَّذِينَ تَمَنَّوْا۟ مَكَانَهُۥ بِٱلْأَمْسِ يَقُولُونَ وَيْكَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَقْدِرُ لَوْلَآ أَن مَّنَّ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا لَخَسَفَ بِنَا وَيْكَأَنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
وَيْكَأَنَّ
it has become apparent that
To introduce a conclusion newly recognized as apparent from events.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Lemmas: كأن
Forms: كَأَنَّ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَأَصْبَحَ ٱلَّذِينَ تَمَنَّوْا۟ مَكَانَهُۥ بِٱلْأَمْسِ يَقُولُونَ وَيْكَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَقْدِرُ لَوْلَآ أَن مَّنَّ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا لَخَسَفَ بِنَا وَيْكَأَنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all 40 occurrences. Thirty-eight introduce an explicit likeness, apparent state, or counterfactual appearance, ranging from concrete similes to كَأَن لَمْ clauses. The two وَيْكَأَنَّ segments at 28:82 occur in retrospective recognition after the speakers' earlier wish and shift the same appearance relation toward an inference newly made evident. Attached مَا and pronoun forms do not require distinct lexical cores, and the aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. The exact discourse force of وَيْكَأَنَّ remains a segment-linked review point; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.