وَلَلْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنَ الْأُولَىٰ
And surely the Hereafter is better for you than the earlier life.
After denying an immediate fear in 93:3, verse 93:4 opens a positive prospect. The emphatic lām and the comparative khayr reinforce the move from negation to assurance.
Exegetes discuss the scope of al-ākhirah in context; the rhetorical relationship established directly by the passage is the sequence from denied abandonment to promised good.
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Practice 6: Advanced Qur’anic Coherence: Verse Connections and Rhetorical Relationships
وَلَلْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنَ الْأُولَىٰ
And surely the Hereafter is better for you than the earlier life.
After denying an immediate fear in 93:3, verse 93:4 opens a positive prospect. The emphatic lām and the comparative khayr reinforce the move from negation to assurance.
Exegetes discuss the scope of al-ākhirah in context; the rhetorical relationship established directly by the passage is the sequence from denied abandonment to promised good.