What role does fa-dhālika play in al-Māʿūn 107:2?
Supplementary Practice 21: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat Quraysh and al-Māʿūn
- It introduces identification after the opening question
- Treat dhālika as a conditional noun and fāʾ as its response
- Treat the fāʾ as equivalent to an oath wāw without discourse relation
- Read the second relative clause as negating the first entirely