LessonsĪjāz al-Ḥadhf: Forms of Ellipsis and Evidence for Recovering the OmittedQuiz

﴿لَا يَسْتَوِي مِنْكُمْ مَنْ أَنْفَقَ مِنْ قَبْلِ الْفَتْحِ وَقَاتَلَ﴾
Those among you who spent and fought before the conquest are not equal. (Al-Ḥadīd 57:10)

Comparison presupposes a second group. The context supplies those who spent and fought afterward, without repeating the full parallel expression. The following statement in the verse explains the distinction.

The comparison itself is a clue to the missing counterpart. One must not invent an unrelated comparator merely because the phrase “not equal” appears.

An omitted complement shared between coordinated verbs is another possibility, but its scope must be grounded in context.

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An omitted coordinated counterpart

Ījāz al-Ḥadhf: Forms of Ellipsis and Evidence for Recovering the Omitted

﴿لَا يَسْتَوِي مِنْكُمْ مَنْ أَنْفَقَ مِنْ قَبْلِ الْفَتْحِ وَقَاتَلَ﴾
Those among you who spent and fought before the conquest are not equal. (Al-Ḥadīd 57:10)

Comparison presupposes a second group. The context supplies those who spent and fought afterward, without repeating the full parallel expression. The following statement in the verse explains the distinction.

The comparison itself is a clue to the missing counterpart. One must not invent an unrelated comparator merely because the phrase “not equal” appears.

An omitted complement shared between coordinated verbs is another possibility, but its scope must be grounded in context.