AD. This verifies what Al-Dosugi argued for and proves that Al-Zamakhshari was a follower, not an initiator, of this analytical approach. Zamakhsharyyan Lan Zamakhsharyyan Lan ‘Al-Zamakhshari's Negation’ was another topic that divided scholars to agree or disagree with him. In his view, Al-Zamakhshari defined the negation particle lan as a particle that negates present tense verbs with present and future references. To him, it is like ‘never’ in English where it has a sense of continuous negation, i.e., where negation extends beyond the present to negate any possible chances for a particular event or state to take place in the future (cf. He is not married. He will never get married). Al-Zamakhshari gave various examples to validate his analysis, such as: 1). When Prophet Mousa asked God if he could see Him, God replied: (لن تراني) lan t-aran-i NEG 3rd Sg.PRES-see-OBJ.PRO “You will never see me” (The Quran, 7:143) 2). When God said that those whom people invoke besides Him will never be able to create a fly even if they gathered together for that purpose: (لن يخلقوا ذباباً) lan ya-khlouq-ou thobab-an NEG PRES-create-3rd PL fly-ACC “They can never create a fly” (The Quran, 22:73) However, some 8th century scholars such as Ibn Hisham believed that Al-Zamakhsari regarded lan as a continuous negation particle because he was deeply influenced by the philosophical ideas of his Mu’tazile approach. That is because this is the way the Mu’tazile people interpret the Quran, which is not the way all other Muslims do. For instance, example (1) above shows how Mu’tazile people believe that they will never be able to see God in the afterlife, and this is the approach Al-Zamakhshari followed in his semantic and syntactic analysis of the Quran. However, all Muslims (who do not follow the Mu'tazile approach), believe the opposite, as it is actually stated in the Quran that believers will ,indeed, be able to see God: وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاضِرَةٌ * إِلَى﻿ رَبِّ﻿هَا نَاظِرَةٌ ﴾ [القيامة: 22، 23]﴿ "Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and beauty) * Looking towards their Lord" (The Quran, 75: 22,23) As for lan, Ibn Hisham also had a different opinion, as he regarded it as a normal negative particle that does not bear a continuous negation sense. He defended his view by some examples from the Quran, as follows: 3). When God said about the disbelievers that they will never wish to die: