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

أَلَمْ يَجِدْكَ يَتِيمًا فَآوَىٰ
Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? (الضحى: 6)

In a-lam, the interrogative hamza combines with the jussive negator lam. The purpose here is to elicit recognition of an already known favor, rather than request missing information. This is istifhām taqrīrī.

Yajid is jussive after lam, the second-person pronoun marks its object, and yatīman completes the description of the addressee’s state, analyzable as the second object of the verb in this construction. Fa-āwā then expresses the ensuing act of shelter. The grammatical structure and the rhetorical purpose of the question should be analyzed separately.

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

أَلَمْ يَجِدْكَ يَتِيمًا فَآوَىٰ
Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? (الضحى: 6)

In a-lam, the interrogative hamza combines with the jussive negator lam. The purpose here is to elicit recognition of an already known favor, rather than request missing information. This is istifhām taqrīrī.

Yajid is jussive after lam, the second-person pronoun marks its object, and yatīman completes the description of the addressee’s state, analyzable as the second object of the verb in this construction. Fa-āwā then expresses the ensuing act of shelter. The grammatical structure and the rhetorical purpose of the question should be analyzed separately.