Supplementary Practice 18: Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā and Sūrat al-Sharḥ
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- How do the two opening wāws of al-Ḍuḥā function?
- What does idhā sajā add to the oath by the night?
- How does mā waddʿaka rabbuka relate to the preceding oaths?
- Which reconstruction is grounded for the omitted object in wa-mā qalā?
- What grounds the classification of wa-mā qalā as ellipsis?
- What is the principal effect of the lām in wa-la-l-ākhiratu khayrun?
- What does sawfa contribute in wa-la-sawfa yuʿṭīka rabbuka?
- How does fā function between giving and satisfaction?
- What is the primary rhetorical force of a-lam yajidka yatīman fa-āwā?
- What rhetorical feature is shared by a-lam nashraḥ and a-lam yajidka?
- What does the repeated wa-wajadaka ... fa- pattern achieve?
- What follows from the brevity of fa-āwā, fa-hadā and fa-aghnā?
- What is the function of lā in fa-lā taqhar?
- What makes wāw appropriate between the two ammā divisions?
- What has been fronted in wa-ammā bi-niʿmati rabbika fa-ḥaddith?
- Where does al-Ḍuḥā clearly shift from reporting favors to directives?
- Why is it inadequate to treat wa-waḍaʿnā and wa-rafaʿnā as mere substitution?
- What does alladhī anqaḍa ẓahraka contribute after wizraka?
- What does inna contribute to fa-inna maʿa al-ʿusri yusrā?
- Which device best characterizes the repeated assurance in 94:5–6?
- What is a sound observation about the missing opening fā in the repeated verse?
- Which distinction is overtly present between al-ʿusr and yusran?
- Does repeated indefinite yusran alone conclusively establish two numerically distinct instances of ease?
- How does fa-nṣab function in fa-idhā faraghta fa-nṣab?
- Which constituent is fronted in wa-ilā rabbika fa-rghab?
- What links the final two instructions of al-Sharḥ?
- Which comparison of the surahs’ openings is correct?
- How do the devices in wa-mā qalā and the repeated inna maʿa al-ʿusr differ?
- Which sequence correctly classifies a-lam yajidka, fa-ammā al-yatīma and fa-idhā faraghta?
- Which approach best reflects the rhetorical structure of both surahs?