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

حَمَّالَةَ الْحَطَبِ
Carrier of firewood. (111:4)

In the familiar Ḥafṣ reading ḥammālata is accusative. A standard explanation is the accusative of censure (naṣb ʿalā al-dhamm), supplying an understood verb such as 'I condemn' or 'I mean'. Circumstantial analyses and a nominative reading are also reported in the grammatical tradition.

Simply calling it an ordinary nominative predicate of imraʾatuhu would conflict with the displayed case in this reading. The rhetorical effect is a pointed characterization of the second person.

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Ḥammālata al-ḥaṭab: accusative of censure

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

حَمَّالَةَ الْحَطَبِ
Carrier of firewood. (111:4)

In the familiar Ḥafṣ reading ḥammālata is accusative. A standard explanation is the accusative of censure (naṣb ʿalā al-dhamm), supplying an understood verb such as 'I condemn' or 'I mean'. Circumstantial analyses and a nominative reading are also reported in the grammatical tradition.

Simply calling it an ordinary nominative predicate of imraʾatuhu would conflict with the displayed case in this reading. The rhetorical effect is a pointed characterization of the second person.