LessonsSupplementary Practice 24 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Falaq and Sūrat al-NāsQuiz

الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ
Who whispers into the breasts of humankind. (114:5)

Alladhī is a relative pronoun and yuwaswisu is the verb in its relative clause; the understood subject points back to the relative pronoun. The construction further identifies the activity of al-waswās al-khannās. Classical grammarians offer more than one case analysis for the relative expression.

The rhetorical effect is to move from a named threatening agent to the recognizable act by which its threat operates.

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Alladhī yuwaswisu: a relative clause that identifies the action

Supplementary Practice 24 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Falaq and Sūrat al-Nās

الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ
Who whispers into the breasts of humankind. (114:5)

Alladhī is a relative pronoun and yuwaswisu is the verb in its relative clause; the understood subject points back to the relative pronoun. The construction further identifies the activity of al-waswās al-khannās. Classical grammarians offer more than one case analysis for the relative expression.

The rhetorical effect is to move from a named threatening agent to the recognizable act by which its threat operates.