نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ
A fire full of flame. (111:3)
Nāran is indefinite and accusative; dhāta agrees as an accusative adjective and is in construct with lahab, its genitive complement. Dhāt makes the quality of flame explicit rather than merely renaming the fire.
Indefiniteness can contribute terror or intensity when supported by context, but it never has that meaning automatically. Here the warning and the vivid qualification together support this rhetorical reading.
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Supplementary Practice 23: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Masad and al-Ikhlāṣ
نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ
A fire full of flame. (111:3)
Nāran is indefinite and accusative; dhāta agrees as an accusative adjective and is in construct with lahab, its genitive complement. Dhāt makes the quality of flame explicit rather than merely renaming the fire.
Indefiniteness can contribute terror or intensity when supported by context, but it never has that meaning automatically. Here the warning and the vivid qualification together support this rhetorical reading.