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

يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ
Abu Lahab’s two hands. (111:1)

Yadā is dual, nominative by alif, and in construct; abī is genitive by yāʾ as a five-noun form and is itself a construct; lahab is its genitive complement. The dual ending should not be confused with singular or plural morphology.

'Hands' may denote the physical members or serve as a metonym for actions and capacity. The rhetoric of mentioning the hands before the man can be examined through metonymy or indirect indication, while the syntactic subject remains yadā.

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Parsing yadā abī lahab

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

يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ
Abu Lahab’s two hands. (111:1)

Yadā is dual, nominative by alif, and in construct; abī is genitive by yāʾ as a five-noun form and is itself a construct; lahab is its genitive complement. The dual ending should not be confused with singular or plural morphology.

'Hands' may denote the physical members or serve as a metonym for actions and capacity. The rhetoric of mentioning the hands before the man can be examined through metonymy or indirect indication, while the syntactic subject remains yadā.