How do the two fāʾ particles in fa-man (99:7) and fa-atharna (100:4) differ?
Supplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt
- Both convert a conditional noun into a relative pronoun
- Both make the agent passive
- The first introduces a general inference; the second connects successive scene actions
- Both are always semantically empty additions