LessonsSupplementary Practice 18: Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā and Sūrat al-SharḥQuiz

وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ
And as for your Lord’s blessing, proclaim it. (الضحى: 11)

Unlike the two preceding units with accusative nouns, this third member fronts the prepositional phrase bi-niʿmati rabbika. Fa-ḥaddith is an imperative: the blessing is made the stated topic before the instruction to speak of it.

Fronting should not automatically be equated with absolute exclusivity; its full force depends on context. What is clear is the structured threefold division: the orphan, the petitioner and the divine blessing each receive a corresponding directive related to the prior favors.

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Fronting the topic of gratitude

Supplementary Practice 18: Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā and Sūrat al-Sharḥ

وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ
And as for your Lord’s blessing, proclaim it. (الضحى: 11)

Unlike the two preceding units with accusative nouns, this third member fronts the prepositional phrase bi-niʿmati rabbika. Fa-ḥaddith is an imperative: the blessing is made the stated topic before the instruction to speak of it.

Fronting should not automatically be equated with absolute exclusivity; its full force depends on context. What is clear is the structured threefold division: the orphan, the petitioner and the divine blessing each receive a corresponding directive related to the prior favors.