Omar Abu Rumman

Kalla in the Holy Qur’an: A Linguistic, Exegetical, and Translational Study

Kalla (كَلَّا) is a highly marked particle in Qur’anic Arabic whose semantic and pragmatic force—often associated with deterrence, rebuke, and emphatic warning—has no straightforward equivalent in English. Occurring thirty‑three times, all in the second half of the Holy Qur’an, this particle has long been a point of di...