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

لِإِيلَافِ قُرَيْشٍ إِيلَافِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتَاءِ وَالصَّيْفِ
For Quraysh’s accustomed security—their accustomed winter and summer journeys. (106:1–2)

The repeated īlāf is not pointless redundancy. Quraysh is named, then referred to by -him, and the actual travel cycle is specified. The second phrase may be analyzed as an explanatory substitute for the first.

Repetition restores attention and narrows a general favor to identifiable journeys. In one familiar grammatical treatment, the accusative riḥlata relates to the preceding verbal noun; it is not automatically an adverb of time.

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Repetition of īlāf and specification of the journeys

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

لِإِيلَافِ قُرَيْشٍ إِيلَافِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتَاءِ وَالصَّيْفِ
For Quraysh’s accustomed security—their accustomed winter and summer journeys. (106:1–2)

The repeated īlāf is not pointless redundancy. Quraysh is named, then referred to by -him, and the actual travel cycle is specified. The second phrase may be analyzed as an explanatory substitute for the first.

Repetition restores attention and narrows a general favor to identifiable journeys. In one familiar grammatical treatment, the accusative riḥlata relates to the preceding verbal noun; it is not automatically an adverb of time.