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

فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا
Let them laugh little and weep much. (At-Tawbah 9:82)

Both clauses use lam al-amr to express a directive: falyadhaku and walyabku. Laughing and weeping are contrasted, as are little and much. These parallel requests contribute to one overall rhetorical purpose.

Grammar: In falyadhaku, the present verb is jussive, marked by deletion of nūn; the plural wāw is its subject pronoun. In walyabku the conjunction links a second directive with the same pattern.

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Joining nondeclarative clauses

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

فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا
Let them laugh little and weep much. (At-Tawbah 9:82)

Both clauses use lam al-amr to express a directive: falyadhaku and walyabku. Laughing and weeping are contrasted, as are little and much. These parallel requests contribute to one overall rhetorical purpose.

Grammar: In falyadhaku, the present verb is jussive, marked by deletion of nūn; the plural wāw is its subject pronoun. In walyabku the conjunction links a second directive with the same pattern.