What does the khayran/sharran contrast accomplish in 99:7–8?
Supplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt
- It establishes that the two words are synonyms
- It states accountability for both good and evil through parallel structures
- It makes the second condition abrogate the first
- It renders the scale of deeds wholly irrelevant