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

وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ
And from the harm of an envier when they envy. (113:5)

Ḥāsid is an indefinite active participle, while ḥasad is a past-tense verb from the same root. With idhā, the expression highlights the circumstance in which the disposition is expressed. The refuge concerns the harm that can proceed from envy; it is not a grammatical declaration that every state of a person has the same effect.

The adjacent participle and verb are not pointless repetition: one identifies a characterizing disposition, the other its operative moment.

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Ḥāsid idhā ḥasad: disposition and its expression

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

وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ
And from the harm of an envier when they envy. (113:5)

Ḥāsid is an indefinite active participle, while ḥasad is a past-tense verb from the same root. With idhā, the expression highlights the circumstance in which the disposition is expressed. The refuge concerns the harm that can proceed from envy; it is not a grammatical declaration that every state of a person has the same effect.

The adjacent participle and verb are not pointless repetition: one identifies a characterizing disposition, the other its operative moment.