LessonsSupplementary Practice 19: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-TakāthurQuiz

حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ
Until you came to the graves. (التكاثر: 2)

Ḥattā marks a limit or endpoint: the preoccupation continues as far as reaching the graves. Zurtum describes the relation to graves with the language of visiting, suggesting the transition beyond worldly competition and, in a common interpretive reading, the transience of worldly residence.

Another exegetical approach links the wording with boasting even at graveyards. Those possibilities should not be reduced to a single grammatical inevitability. The firm rhetorical observation is the strong movement from heedless rivalry to the confronting image of graves.

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The endpoint and imagery of visiting graves

Supplementary Practice 19: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-Takāthur

حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ
Until you came to the graves. (التكاثر: 2)

Ḥattā marks a limit or endpoint: the preoccupation continues as far as reaching the graves. Zurtum describes the relation to graves with the language of visiting, suggesting the transition beyond worldly competition and, in a common interpretive reading, the transience of worldly residence.

Another exegetical approach links the wording with boasting even at graveyards. Those possibilities should not be reduced to a single grammatical inevitability. The firm rhetorical observation is the strong movement from heedless rivalry to the confronting image of graves.