What qualification is essential when interpreting alladhīna hum yurāʾūn?
Supplementary Practice 21: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat Quraysh and al-Māʿūn
- Conclude that every public act of worship is ostentation
- Treat yurāʾūn as merely involuntarily hearing praise
- Ostentation is condemned, but visible good action alone does not prove corrupt intention
- Infer that the verse licenses certainty about any individual’s hidden motive