Practice 5: Advanced Applied Balāghah in Selected Qur’anic Passages
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- What is the grammatical function of iyyāka in iyyāka naʿbudu?
- What shift occurs between al-ḥamdu lillāh and iyyāka naʿbudu?
- What is a main effect of repeating iyyāka in wa-iyyāka nastaʿīn?
- Which claim wrongly universalises preposing based on iyyāka naʿbudu?
- What is the most defensible rhetorical description of wa-lakum fī al-qiṣāṣi ḥayāh?
- Why is it imprecise to call qiṣāṣ and ḥayāh a simple pair of ṭibāq?
- What does initial lakum foreground in the expression?
- What does the pairing of negations in 93:3 contribute?
- Why can the second clause mā qalā be analysed for ellipsis?
- How does rabbuka suit the context of mā waddaʿaka rabbuka?
- What secure function does inna perform in 94:5?
- What is a sound reading of the repeated assurance in 94:5–6?
- Which conclusion about definiteness and indefiniteness requires caution?
- Why is mention of the bones significant in wahana al-ʿaẓmu minnī?
- Which source domain is employed in wa-shtaʿala al-raʾsu shayban?
- How is shayban best analysed grammatically in 19:4?
- How is shaqiyyan interpreted in its immediate syntactic context?
- What follows accurately from kathīran and baʿḍa in 49:12?
- How should the coordinated prohibitions against spying and backbiting be understood?
- What is the contextual force of the question about eating a dead brother’s flesh?
- What does fa-karihtumūhu clarify about the preceding question?
- How does the closing command and reassurance function in 49:12?
- What is the grammatical number of -kumā in rabbikumā?
- What is the best way to interpret the repeated refrain in Ar-Raḥmān?
- What is the function of yā in yā asafā ʿalā Yūsuf?
- Why should wa-byaḍḍat ʿaynāhu min al-ḥuzn not automatically be classified as metaphor?
- What does kaẓīm convey in fa-huwa kaẓīm?
- Which statement about wa-shtaʿala al-raʾsu shayban is most directly verifiable?
- What distinguishes the rhetoric of iyyāka naʿbudu from the refrain fa-bi-ayyi ālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibān?
- Which two features coexist in mā waddaʿaka rabbuka wa-mā qalā?
- When should a rhetorical analysis be qualified as a possibility?
- What should come first in an integrated analysis of a Qur’anic passage?
- Why can rhetorical interrogation and imagery coexist in a single verse?
- What is NOT a necessary condition for eloquent effect?