Allah’s popular phrase “يَا أَيُّهَا” (Ya Ayyuhaa)
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“يَا أَيُّهَا” (Ya Ayyuhaa) in which “يَا” (Ya) is a soft vocative particle that is derived by the soft characteristics of Arabic letter “ی” (ya) with the vocal extension “الف” (alif) to prolong the softness of “ی” (ya). This addressing article is rather like the archaic "O" in English to mean O, Oh, Hey etc. However, “أَيُّهَا” (Ayyuhaa) has been wrongly translated throughout the Quran, our learned scholars says that “أَيُّهَا" (ayyuha) is synonymous with يَا (ya), with which it is often used redundantly in conjunction and this is also asserted that usage of redundant and suspended words is the norm in the Quran.
In other words our scholar believe that Allah has used suspended, redundant, useless and meaning less words in the Quran! However, the truth is that no word of God revealed in the Quran is suspended, useless, redundant and without meaning. These ignorant scholars might not have read Allah’s challenge to the species of all human and genies to bring the same as the Quran but they can’t (178
If God himself has set and defined the value and standard of His respected words then how can we say about any word of the Quran that it is suspended or redundant or not in use? Either we have no knowledge about the words of the Quran or we are hiding Allah’s words in our unlawful belief.
We must note that يَا (ya) and أَيُّهَا (ʾayyuha) are not synonyms of each other, and unlike يَا (ya), the phrase أَيُّهَا (ʾayyuha) inflects for gender addressing anything that is referred to by a grammatically feminine word like the word نفس (nfs) which means self.