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

لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ
No one is His equal. (112:4)

A less marked prose order would be 'wa-lam yakun aḥadun kufuwan lahu'. The Qurʾānic order places lahu first, kufuwan next, and aḥadun at the end. Lahu immediately fixes the relation, kufuwan identifies the denied property, and aḥad extends the negation over any possible comparable entity.

The sense of total denial comes from the whole construction, not from a universal rule that fronting one phrase always yields one fixed technical category of qaṣr.

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Lahu kufuwan aḥad: the effect of marked word order

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

لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ
No one is His equal. (112:4)

A less marked prose order would be 'wa-lam yakun aḥadun kufuwan lahu'. The Qurʾānic order places lahu first, kufuwan next, and aḥadun at the end. Lahu immediately fixes the relation, kufuwan identifies the denied property, and aḥad extends the negation over any possible comparable entity.

The sense of total denial comes from the whole construction, not from a universal rule that fronting one phrase always yields one fixed technical category of qaṣr.