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«يُسَبَّحُ لَهُ فِيهَا بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْآصَالِ ... رِجَالٌ»
Praise is offered to Him there morning and evening … by men.

This resumption analysis pertains specifically to the passive reading yusabbaḥu. The implicit question is “Who praises Him?” and “men” is taken as subject of an omitted active verb. In the familiar active reading, the syntactic analysis must be reconsidered.

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Ellipsis in Istiʾnāf and Two Grounds for Waṣl

«يُسَبَّحُ لَهُ فِيهَا بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْآصَالِ ... رِجَالٌ»
Praise is offered to Him there morning and evening … by men.

This resumption analysis pertains specifically to the passive reading yusabbaḥu. The implicit question is “Who praises Him?” and “men” is taken as subject of an omitted active verb. In the familiar active reading, the syntactic analysis must be reconsidered.