LessonsAl-Wasl wa-l-Fasl: Rhetoric of Joining and Separating SentencesQuiz

فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ قَالَ يَا آدَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ
Satan whispered to him, saying: Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of enduring life? (Ta-Ha 20:120)

Fawaswasa reports that Satan whispered, without yet telling us what he said. Qala ya Adamu specifies the content of that whisper. The second clause is not an unrelated subsequent act.

Distinction: It is an explanatory disclosure. Treating it as an independent event would weaken the relation between the act of whispering and the words whispered.

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Al-Wasl wa-l-Fasl: Rhetoric of Joining and Separating Sentences

فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ قَالَ يَا آدَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ
Satan whispered to him, saying: Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of enduring life? (Ta-Ha 20:120)

Fawaswasa reports that Satan whispered, without yet telling us what he said. Qala ya Adamu specifies the content of that whisper. The second clause is not an unrelated subsequent act.

Distinction: It is an explanatory disclosure. Treating it as an independent event would weaken the relation between the act of whispering and the words whispered.