LessonsSupplementary Practice 20: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Humazah and al-FīlQuiz

الَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُ
Who amassed wealth and counted it over. (الهمزة: 2)

The relative expression alladhī adds identifying behavior to the condemned person: wealth is amassed and repeatedly reckoned. The relative clause deepens the portrait rather than introducing an entirely unrelated individual.

Collecting wealth is not condemned indiscriminately by the mere occurrence of the verb jamaʿa. The negative evaluation arises from the surah’s combination of scornful conduct, obsessive accumulation, and an imagined security beyond mortality. Context restrains overly broad inferences.

Mālan is an indefinite direct object and gives no fixed amount. The pronoun in ʿaddadahū refers to the wealth, with repeated reckoning prominently depicted.

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The relative clause supplies defining conduct

Supplementary Practice 20: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Humazah and al-Fīl

الَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُ
Who amassed wealth and counted it over. (الهمزة: 2)

The relative expression alladhī adds identifying behavior to the condemned person: wealth is amassed and repeatedly reckoned. The relative clause deepens the portrait rather than introducing an entirely unrelated individual.

Collecting wealth is not condemned indiscriminately by the mere occurrence of the verb jamaʿa. The negative evaluation arises from the surah’s combination of scornful conduct, obsessive accumulation, and an imagined security beyond mortality. Context restrains overly broad inferences.

Mālan is an indefinite direct object and gives no fixed amount. The pronoun in ʿaddadahū refers to the wealth, with repeated reckoning prominently depicted.