LessonsṬarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)Quiz

Alā ayyuhādhā al-lāʾimī combines attention-getting address with a direct vocative challenge. Hal anta mukhlidī is formally interrogative but functions as a denial: you cannot give me eternal life. The following verse makes in kunta lā tastaṭīʿu the conditional premise and fa-daʿnī the consequent command.

Daʿnī contains an imperative with the protective nūn and a first-person object pronoun. Ubādirhā is first-person present; its suffix refers to death. The syntax builds pressure in stages: address, rhetorical question, conditional premise, and demand to cease rebuking.

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Ṭarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)

Alā ayyuhādhā al-lāʾimī combines attention-getting address with a direct vocative challenge. Hal anta mukhlidī is formally interrogative but functions as a denial: you cannot give me eternal life. The following verse makes in kunta lā tastaṭīʿu the conditional premise and fa-daʿnī the consequent command.

Daʿnī contains an imperative with the protective nūn and a first-person object pronoun. Ubādirhā is first-person present; its suffix refers to death. The syntax builds pressure in stages: address, rhetorical question, conditional premise, and demand to cease rebuking.