أَصَلَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ
Does your prayer command you? (Hūd 11:87)
The people of Shuʿayb use an interrogative form. Prayer is said to “command” because religious worship and its demands guide and motivate behavior.
Although the utterance is a question, the internal predicate “commands” is assigned to prayer as an influencing cause or occasion, not to a human speaker issuing orders. This offers another nondeclarative illustration of indirect predication.
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Four Types of Rational Figurative Predication: Quranic and Nondeclarative Examples
أَصَلَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ
Does your prayer command you? (Hūd 11:87)
The people of Shuʿayb use an interrogative form. Prayer is said to “command” because religious worship and its demands guide and motivate behavior.
Although the utterance is a question, the internal predicate “commands” is assigned to prayer as an influencing cause or occasion, not to a human speaker issuing orders. This offers another nondeclarative illustration of indirect predication.