LessonsPractice 5: Advanced Applied Balāghah in Selected Qur’anic PassagesQuiz

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ
Your Lord has neither forsaken you nor become displeased with you.

Aḍ-Ḍuḥā 93:3 consists of parallel negative clauses. The first denies abandonment; the second denies aversion. Repeating mā strengthens reassurance while distinguishing two related concerns.

The result may suggest continuing care, but that implication must not be substituted for the precise wording: the explicit form is a pair of negations.

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Parallel negations in reassurance

Practice 5: Advanced Applied Balāghah in Selected Qur’anic Passages

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ
Your Lord has neither forsaken you nor become displeased with you.

Aḍ-Ḍuḥā 93:3 consists of parallel negative clauses. The first denies abandonment; the second denies aversion. Repeating mā strengthens reassurance while distinguishing two related concerns.

The result may suggest continuing care, but that implication must not be substituted for the precise wording: the explicit form is a pair of negations.