LessonsSupplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical AnalysisQuiz

وَنَحْنُ ـ وَهَذَا شَرْطٌ لَا يُهْمَلُ ـ نُقَابِلُ النُّسَخَ قَبْلَ الْحُكْمِ.
We—and this is a condition not to be neglected—compare the copies before reaching a judgment.

Wa-hādhā sharṭun lā yuhmalu is an independent nominal statement inserted within the main predication naḥnu nuqābilu. Removing it leaves the central assertion grammatical and complete. In this context it is a parenthetic clause (iʿtirāḍ), not an indispensable complement of naḥnu.

Its function is to draw attention to a methodological requirement. Not every interposed expression has the same rhetorical status: test the completeness of the core clause and the particular purpose served by the insertion.

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An inserted sentence with a distinct purpose

Supplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical Analysis

وَنَحْنُ ـ وَهَذَا شَرْطٌ لَا يُهْمَلُ ـ نُقَابِلُ النُّسَخَ قَبْلَ الْحُكْمِ.
We—and this is a condition not to be neglected—compare the copies before reaching a judgment.

Wa-hādhā sharṭun lā yuhmalu is an independent nominal statement inserted within the main predication naḥnu nuqābilu. Removing it leaves the central assertion grammatical and complete. In this context it is a parenthetic clause (iʿtirāḍ), not an indispensable complement of naḥnu.

Its function is to draw attention to a methodological requirement. Not every interposed expression has the same rhetorical status: test the completeness of the core clause and the particular purpose served by the insertion.