LessonsPractice 7: Ellipsis, Preposing and Contextual Meaning in Qur’anic ExpressionQuiz

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ
Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor has He become displeased.

Ellipsis concerns an unspoken element licensed or recoverable from grammar and context. Mere non-mention is different: a statement need not explicitly say everything one could imagine about its subject.

In Ad-Duḥā 93:3 the object is not overtly repeated after qalā. The preceding waddaʿaka and the addressed context identify the relevant relationship. There is a real textual clue for discussing an omitted object, not just a conjecture about unstated ideas.

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Ellipsis versus simple non-mention

Practice 7: Ellipsis, Preposing and Contextual Meaning in Qur’anic Expression

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ
Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor has He become displeased.

Ellipsis concerns an unspoken element licensed or recoverable from grammar and context. Mere non-mention is different: a statement need not explicitly say everything one could imagine about its subject.

In Ad-Duḥā 93:3 the object is not overtly repeated after qalā. The preceding waddaʿaka and the addressed context identify the relevant relationship. There is a real textual clue for discussing an omitted object, not just a conjecture about unstated ideas.