What is the strongest general method for rhetorical comparison of the two surahs?
Supplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-Ikhlāṣ
- Treat every indefinite noun as terror
- Determine each device’s role from grammar, meaning and communicative context
- Treat all fronting as the same qaṣr al-qalb
- Assign identical forms identical grammatical roles in every occurrence