يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِنْ قَوْمٍ
O believers, let not one group ridicule another.
Al-Ḥujurāt 49:11–12 addresses believers and then prohibits different forms of social harm. The repeated vocative unifies the ethical discourse.
The possibility that those mocked may be better undermines the arrogant assumption that the mocker knows another person’s true rank.
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Practice 6: Advanced Qur’anic Coherence: Verse Connections and Rhetorical Relationships
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِنْ قَوْمٍ
O believers, let not one group ridicule another.
Al-Ḥujurāt 49:11–12 addresses believers and then prohibits different forms of social harm. The repeated vocative unifies the ethical discourse.
The possibility that those mocked may be better undermines the arrogant assumption that the mocker knows another person’s true rank.