What follows from the brevity of fa-āwā, fa-hadā and fa-aghnā?
Supplementary Practice 18: Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā and Sūrat al-Sharḥ
- Each necessarily omits an entire oath response
- All are negative imperfect verbs
- All hide quotations from unrelated poetry
- The clauses are concise, but the same ellipsis need not be posited in each