What is the basic difference between illā alladhīna and law taʿlamūn?
Supplementary Practice 19: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-Takāthur
- Illā marks exception; law marks a condition with an unexpressed apodosis
- They are two pronunciations of the same negator
- Illā is always interrogative and law circumstantial wāw
- Both necessarily omit the subject