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)

The interrogative form does not primarily seek unknown information. It directs the hearer to recognize and examine a recognizable moral type. The continuation of the passage clarifies the rhetorical function of the opening question.

Raʾayta need not be restricted to literal eyesight; intellectual recognition fits the idiom. Its central force here is attention and admonition; surprise or reproach can be secondary effects.

Opening interactive controls...

Araʾayta: a question inviting recognition

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)

The interrogative form does not primarily seek unknown information. It directs the hearer to recognize and examine a recognizable moral type. The continuation of the passage clarifies the rhetorical function of the opening question.

Raʾayta need not be restricted to literal eyesight; intellectual recognition fits the idiom. Its central force here is attention and admonition; surprise or reproach can be secondary effects.