LessonsSupplementary Practice 21: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat Quraysh and al-MāʿūnQuiz

أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّينِ
Have you considered the one who denies the Judgment? (107:1)
فَذَٰلِكَ الَّذِي يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ
That is the one who repulses the orphan. (107:2)
وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ
And does not encourage feeding the poor. (107:3)
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ
So woe to those who pray— (107:4)
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ
those who are heedless of their prayers, (107:5)
الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَاءُونَ
those who make a show, (107:6)
وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ
and withhold ordinary help. (107:7)

The warning in verse 4 must be read with its qualifying descriptions in verses 5–7, not generalized to everyone who prays.

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Sūrat al-Māʿūn: the seven-verse passage

Supplementary Practice 21: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat Quraysh and al-Māʿūn

أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّينِ
Have you considered the one who denies the Judgment? (107:1)
فَذَٰلِكَ الَّذِي يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ
That is the one who repulses the orphan. (107:2)
وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ
And does not encourage feeding the poor. (107:3)
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ
So woe to those who pray— (107:4)
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ
those who are heedless of their prayers, (107:5)
الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَاءُونَ
those who make a show, (107:6)
وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ
and withhold ordinary help. (107:7)

The warning in verse 4 must be read with its qualifying descriptions in verses 5–7, not generalized to everyone who prays.