وَالْعَصْرِ
By time.
Al-ʿAṣr moves through an oath (103:1), an emphatic general assertion of loss (103:2), and a qualifying exception (103:3). This forms a compact argumentative progression.
The oath directs attention, the general assertion introduces the grave condition, and the exception specifies what marks those outside it.
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Practice 6: Advanced Qur’anic Coherence: Verse Connections and Rhetorical Relationships
وَالْعَصْرِ
By time.
Al-ʿAṣr moves through an oath (103:1), an emphatic general assertion of loss (103:2), and a qualifying exception (103:3). This forms a compact argumentative progression.
The oath directs attention, the general assertion introduces the grave condition, and the exception specifies what marks those outside it.