التعريف

What is followed by something inseparable from it. It is identified by the conditional, ‘had it been’, whether a negative is added or not. For example, God says in the Qur'an: ‘had there been in heaven or on earth any deities other than God, both would surely have fallen into ruin’. (21: 22) The conditional is attached to the entailing, which is the ‘presence of deities other than God’, and what is entailed in this example is the ‘falling into ruin’.