LessonsSupplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-IkhlāṣQuiz

وَامْرَأَتُهُ حَمَّالَةَ الْحَطَبِ
And his wife, the carrier of firewood. (111:4)

Imraʾatuhu is nominative. Recognized parses include treating it as a new subject or coordinating it with the subject of yaṣlā. The wāw connects the introduction of this second person to the preceding account, rather than serving as a sound ornament.

Good analysis first fixes the word’s inflection and possible syntactic connection, then asks what additional rhetorical point the named companion contributes to the passage.

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Wa-mraʾatuhu: bringing a second person into view

Supplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-Ikhlāṣ

وَامْرَأَتُهُ حَمَّالَةَ الْحَطَبِ
And his wife, the carrier of firewood. (111:4)

Imraʾatuhu is nominative. Recognized parses include treating it as a new subject or coordinating it with the subject of yaṣlā. The wāw connects the introduction of this second person to the preceding account, rather than serving as a sound ornament.

Good analysis first fixes the word’s inflection and possible syntactic connection, then asks what additional rhetorical point the named companion contributes to the passage.