How do the two opening wāws of al-Ḍuḥā function?
Supplementary Practice 18: Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā and Sūrat al-Sharḥ
- The first is an oath wāw; the second joins another object of the same oath
- Both are circumstantial wāws
- The first is resumption, the second an apodosis
- Both change a negative clause into an affirmative