What is the key difference between the openings of the two surahs?
Supplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt
- Both begin with the same explicit imperative
- Az-Zalzalah opens conditionally in time; al-ʿĀdiyāt opens with an oath and fast succession
- Az-Zalzalah begins with an oath and al-ʿĀdiyāt with negation
- Both begin with the same expressed conditional answer