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Are the interrogative forms found in the Qur’an, such as: {What is wrong with you?}, {And what is wrong with you?}, {What is wrong with them?}, {So what is wrong with them?}, {So what is wrong with these people?}, {So what is wrong with those who...}, indicative of Allah's wrath or not?

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The aforementioned questions came in the style of rhetorical interrogative for reproof and reprimand, which is an Arabic style indicating Allah's displeasure with what He denounced. For example, in His (Allah's) saying: "Say, 'Is there any among your partners who guides to the truth?' Say, 'Allah guides to the truth.' Then is He who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed or he who does not guide unless he is guided? Then what is [the matter] with you; how do you judge?" The exegetes said that "Then what is [the matter] with you; how do you judge?" means: What do you have in worshipping idols and how do you judge with this falsehood? And likewise, the rest of the verses in which the interrogation came for denial and reprimanding the disbelievers and establishing proof against them, such as: "Has He chosen daughters over sons? What is [the matter] with you; how do you judge?" and "Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?"

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