ٱلْوَاقِعَة : ٤٨

  • أَوَءَابَآؤُنَا And also
  • ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ our forefathers
And our forefathers [as well]?"
What! And our forefathers too?' (read a-wa-aabaa'unaa, [with the wa-] being for supplement, the hamza [a-] for the interrogative; here and in the previous instance, it is used to express 'remoteness [of probability]'; a variant reading has aw-aabaa'unaa, as a supplement with aw, and that to which this is supplemented is the [syntactical] locus of inna and its subject).