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

وَمِنْ شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ
And from the harm of darkness when it settles. (113:3)

وَمِنْ شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ
And from the harm of those blowing upon knots. (113:4)

The wāw coordinates prepositional expressions governed by the previously expressed seeking of refuge; it is not necessarily coordinating separate full declarative sentences. Repeating min sharri gives each kind of danger a distinct place in the supplication.

The syntactic locus of coordination and the rhetorical force of repetition are separate questions: one identifies grammatical linkage, the other explains emphasis.

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Coordination and repeated prepositional phrases

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

وَمِنْ شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ
And from the harm of darkness when it settles. (113:3)

وَمِنْ شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ
And from the harm of those blowing upon knots. (113:4)

The wāw coordinates prepositional expressions governed by the previously expressed seeking of refuge; it is not necessarily coordinating separate full declarative sentences. Repeating min sharri gives each kind of danger a distinct place in the supplication.

The syntactic locus of coordination and the rhetorical force of repetition are separate questions: one identifies grammatical linkage, the other explains emphasis.