أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا
Would any of you like to eat the flesh of their dead brother?
After the prohibition of backbiting, 49:12 introduces a question with a repellent image. This is not an ordinary request for information; it is designed to evoke rejection and moral revulsion.
Akhīhi evokes brotherhood and maytan the helplessness of the dead. The figure must be interpreted in connection with the preceding prohibition, not as an independent literal description.
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Practice 6: Advanced Qur’anic Coherence: Verse Connections and Rhetorical Relationships
أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا
Would any of you like to eat the flesh of their dead brother?
After the prohibition of backbiting, 49:12 introduces a question with a repellent image. This is not an ordinary request for information; it is designed to evoke rejection and moral revulsion.
Akhīhi evokes brotherhood and maytan the helplessness of the dead. The figure must be interpreted in connection with the preceding prohibition, not as an independent literal description.